This special issue includes six essays that consider the gendered dimensions of property television in the UK, Canada and the US as they have emerged since the financial crises of 2008.
AndrejevicM (2004) Reality TV: The Work of Being Watched. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
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FoucaultM (2008) The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978–1979 (trans. BurchellGraham). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
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HuntA (2009) Domestic dystopias: Big brother, wife swap and how clean is your house? In: GillisSHollowsJ (eds) Feminism, Domesticity and Popular Culture. New York: Routledge, pp.123–134.
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McCarthyA (2001) Ambient Television: Visual Culture and Public Space. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
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MathesonSA (2010) Shopping, makeovers, and nationhood: Reality TV and women’s programming in Canada. In: TaddeoJ (ed.) The Tube Has Spoken: Reality TV and History. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, pp.145–170.
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MoranA (2009) New Flows in Global TV. Bristol: Intellect.
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NunnH (2011) Investing in the ‘forever home’: From property programming to ‘retreat TV’. In: WoodHSkeggsB (eds) Reality Television and Class. London: BFI, pp.169–182.
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OuelletteLHayJ (2008) Better Living through Reality TV: Television and Post-welfare Citizenship. Oxford: Blackwell.
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SenderK (2012) The Makeover: Reality Television and Reflexive Audiences. New York: New York University Press.
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ShimpachS (2012) Realty reality: HGTV and the subprime crisis. American Quarterly64(3): 515–542.
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SkeggsBWoodH (2012) Reacting to Reality Television: Performance, Audience and Value. New York: Routledge.
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WhiteM (2013) Gender territories: House hunting on American real estate TV. Television and New Media14(3): 228–243.
