Rachel E. Dubrofsky examines the reality TV series
The Bachelor
and
The Bachelorette
in one of the first book-length feminist analysis of the reality TV genre. The research found in
The Surveillance of Women on Reality TV: Watching
The Bachelorette meets the growing need for scholarship on the reality genre. This book asks us to be attentive to how the surveillance context of the program impacts gendered and racialized bodies. Dubrofsky takes up issues that cut across the U.S. cultural landscape: the use of surveillance in the creation of entertainment products, the proliferation of public confession and its configuration as a therapeutic tool, the ways in which women's displays of emotion are shown on television, the changing face of popular feminist discourse (notions of choice and empowerment), and the recentering of whiteness in popular media.