A sneak preview of the chapters featured in Stories of O…
Introduction: Delineating the Contours of the Oprah Culture Industry
Kimberly Springer
Part I. Oprah the Woman, Oprah the Empire
Chapter 1. Beginnings with O
John Howard
Chapter 2. I’m Everywoman: Oprah Winfrey and Feminist Identification
Jennifer L. Rexroat
Chapter 3. New Age Soul: The Gendered Translation of New Age Spirituality on The Oprah Winfrey Show
Karlyn Crowley
Part II. Contesting the Oprah Experts
Chapter 4. Post[ed]structuralism? Oprah’s Message Boards, Soul Stories, and the Everyday Lives of Women
Sherra Schick
Chapter 5. Oprah para Mujeres Chicanas: A Survey of the Impact of Oprah’s Message on Chicanas
Adriana Katzew and Lilia de Katzew
Chapter 6. Confessions from At-Risk Teens: Abstinence, the Social Construction of Promiscuity, and The Oprah Winfrey Show
Katherine Gregory
Chapter 7. Oprah Goes to Africa: Philanthropic Consumption and Political (Dis)engagement
Heather Laine Talley and Monica J. Casper
Part III. The Oprahfication of Media
Chapter 8. Oprah and the New News
Kathleen Dixon and Kacie Jossart
Chapter 9. The Oprahfication of 9/11: September 11, the War in Iraq, and The Oprah Winfrey Show
Jaap Kooijman
Chapter 10. From the Nobel to Oprah: Toni Morrison, Body Politics, and Oprah’s Book Club
Edith Frampton
Chapter 11. Lost in Translation: Irony and Contradiction in Harpo’s Production of Zora Neal Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God
Trystan Theosophus Cotten
