Feminism and Identity Politics in Law and Order: Special Victims Unit

Cover
Half-title
Endorsement
Series information
Title page
Copyright information
Table of contents
Acknowledgments
List of figures
Series Editors’ Foreword
Introduction: All- American Crime Drama
1 A Very American Story
	Rising from a Stupor
	Rewriting a Masculine Genre
		The Male Foil
	Thematizing Multiculturalism
	City as Actor
	Prime Time Assaults
	Feminism and Rape
	Birth of the Prison State
	Neoliberal Feminism
	The Formula
2 Family Matters: Criminal Mothers and Fathers
	Misogynist Feminism
		Reversal of Terms
	The Monstrous Maternal
	The Absent Abusive Father
	Exoneration of Fathers
		Criminal False Fathers
		Genetic Links
	Both Parents as Abusers
	Conclusion
3 The Violence of Race
	Melodrama in White?
	Silent Witness
	Three Strikes …
	Race Thinking
	A Star Turn
	Re-writing Racism
	Civil Dis-ease
	Expanding the Rainbow
	Labile Whiteness
		Angry White Men
4 A Foreign Affair: The Global Turn to Gaze at the Self
	Orientalist Cosmopolitanism
	The Narco-monstrous
		The Lure of Sex
		Save the (Brown) Children
	Re-visioning the Harem
		War Crimes
		Trauma on the Homefront
	Updating the Protection Scenario
5 Images of Truth: The Science of Detection
	Scientific Optic
		Criminal Intent
		Biology Recapitulates Truth
		The Violent Unconscious
	Gender Outlaws
		Coming Out as Trans
	Policing Perversions
		Sexual Citizenship
		Precarious Lives
		Lipstick Lesbian
	Biological Immutability
6 Paratexts and the Afterlife of SVU
	Cyberfans and Fandom
	Fan Cultures
	Crime Drama and Lesbian Fans
	Slash Fiction and SVU
	What SVU is Missing
	Who Cares About Canon? SVU Femslash
	The Demise of the Fandom
	Contemporary Online Fandom
	Activism
	Lisa Jackson’s Sex Crimes Unit
Conclusion: The Story Continues
Notes
	Introduction: All- American Crime Drama
	1 A Very American Story
	2 Family Matters: Criminal Mothers and Fathers
	3 The Violence of Race
	4 A Foreign Affair: The Global Turn to Gaze at the Self
	5 Images of Truth: The Science of Detection
	6 Paratexts and the Afterlife of SVU
	Conclusion: The Story Continues
Bibliography
Index