Question of Method in Cultural Studies brings together a group of scholars from across the social sciences and humanities to consider one of the most vexing issues confronting the proverbial 'anti-discipline' of cultural studies.

• Covers such topics as the media, feminism, and politics
  
• Identifies what methods have prevailed in the interdisciplinary pursuit of cultural studies
  
• Examines the relationship between cultural studies and traditional disciplines, the politics of knowledge, and spatial and temporal...

Question of Method in Cultural Studies brings together a group of scholars from across the social sciences and humanities to consider one of the most vexing issues confronting the proverbial 'anti-discipline' of cultural studies.

• Covers such topics as the media, feminism, and politics
  
• Identifies what methods have prevailed in the interdisciplinary pursuit of cultural studies
  
• Examines the relationship between cultural studies and traditional disciplines, the politics of knowledge, and spatial and temporal...

Drawing on feminist, postmodern, and psychoanalytic theories, White traces the impact of television's therapeutic and confessional discourses on family construction and consumer culture. In a comprehensive analysis of cable, network, and syndicated programming and both daytime and prime-time shows, she reveals how the therapeutic and confessional mode functions on television, relating it to broader questions of social identity and power.

Originally published 1992.

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