13. 1. Acknowledgments. by Sydney Urbanek -- 2. Little boxes and Weeds: The Geography of Social Mobility / by Sabra Boyd -- 3. Are you a Piper or an Alex? / by Morgan Godvin -- 4. GLOW: A perspective from a real-life Lady Wrestler / by Heather Bandenburg -- 5. Nancy Botwin is a white woman / by Shane Thomas -- 6. Ruth the real girl / by Elizabeth Teets -- 7. "We're the majority now": Interethnic tensions within the Latinx community on 'Orange Is The New Black' / by Rebeccca Bodenheimer -- 8. The infamous fourth season : The straw that broke the Fandom's back / by Dani Bethea -- 9. "Kiss and tell" : an ode to the first iconic 'Gilmore Girls' episode / by Lauren Pinnington -- 10. Really proud of her : 'Teenage Bounty Hunters' and the shifting norms in teen sex / by Zosha Millman -- 11. Finding comfort in GLOW's Arthie Premkumar / by Padya Paramita -- 12. Debbie & Ruth: A shipper's manifesto / by Harmony Cox -- 13. I know who I am: On being incorrect and incurable in 'Weeds' / by Sydney Urbanek -- Acknowledgments.
Summary:
The Women of Jenji Kohan, creator of such landmark shows as Weeds, Orange Is the New Black, and GLOW, is the latest in Fayetteville Mafia Press's pioneering series examining the female characters of legendary creators of television and film. Here, writers from all walks of life analyze the significance of such iconic characters as Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker), Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling), Ruth Wilder (Alison Brie) and Debbie Eagan (Betty Gilpin), and the host of women residing in Litchfield Correctional Institution, to both themselves and to pop culture at large. Edited by Scarlett Harris (A Diva Was a Female Version of a Wrestler: An Abbreviated Herstory of World Wrestling Entertainment), The Women of Jenji Kohan: Weeds, Orange Is the New Black, and GLOW is the third book in the unique "The Women Of" series, following "The Women of David Lynch" (2019) and "The Women of Amy Sherman-Palladino: Gilmore Girls, Bunheads, and Mrs. Maisel (2019). - back cover.
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