All-American TV Crime Drama
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.