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Most studies of media focus on production, representation, or audience. Using rhetorical analysis and ethnographic field methods, my article offers one way to study media production contexts, representations, and audience interactions in relation to one another. For this project, I conducted a narrative rhetorical analysis of the reality docu-series Cathouse that takes place in a legal brothel in Nevada, the Moonlite Bunny Ranch. In addition, I visited the brothel and used ethnographic field methods of participant observation and interviewing to investigate the lived experiences of the women working at the Ranch. My analysis revealed a web of intertextual discourses of prostitution that I could not have accessed had I not used these methods in conjunction with one another. By bringing perspectives from rhetorical inquiry, cultural and media studies, and ethnography into conversation with one another, I provide a framework for analyzing production, representation, and audience for the Cathouse series, while attending to both the content of the women's stories and how these participants rhetorically constructed and performed their identities. Finally, my analysis offers insights into ethnographic and textual "crises of representation" in relation to the concept of "rhetorical authenticity" in media representations, the relationships between audience members, production, and representation in reality television, and material impacts for the women who work at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch that I could not have accessed without using these methods together.

Introduction: transgressing feminist discourses / Jimmie Manning, Northern Illinois University and Jennifer C. Dunn, Dominican University -- (inter)disciplinary transgressions : feminism, communication, and critical interdisciplinarity / Michelle Phillips Buchberger and Leland G. Spencer, Miami University -- Rethinking intersectionality as fractal : non-linear, intricate, and infinite / Jenna Abetz, College of Charleston and Julia Moore, University of Utah -- Race, dialogue, and transgressing white respectability / Carol L. Winkelmann, Xavier University, Cincinnati and Cheris Kramarae, University of Oregon -- The singular they and how it works : a (more or less) structuralist explanation of transgender's poststructuralist, pronominal revolution / John Ike Sewell, University of West Georgia -- Feminist transgressions : vulnerability, bravery, and the need for a more imperfect feminism / Valerie R. Renegar, Southwestern University and Stacey K. Sowards, University of Texas at El Paso -- Topics and trends -- Trans-exclusionary discourse, white feminist failures, and the women's march on Washington, D.C. / Lars Stoltzfus-Brown -- Hate politics : immigration and affect in practice / Dolores Rosalía -- Transgressing the digital terrain : humor in feminist responses to trolling / Kirsti Cole, Minnesota State University -- Sick bodies in healthcare culture : health communication that disciplines female bodies / Molly McKinney, Independent Scholar -- Four transgressive acclamations to end gender violence / Jennifer L. Freitag, University of Dayton -- The making of a hallow bahu (Indian daughter-in-law) : web of influence on Bahu disempowerment / Mara K. Berkland and Supna C. Jain, North Central College -- "I'm your person" : television narrates female friendships in the workplace from Cagney and Lacey to Grey's anatomy / Kathleen M. Turner, Aurora University and Jennifer C. Dunn, Dominican University

Despite decades of activism, resistance, and education, both feminists and genderrebels continue to experience personal, political, institutional, and cultural resistance to rights, recognition, and respect. In the face of these inequalities and disparities, Transgressing Feminist Theory and Discourse seeks to engage with, and disrupt the long-standing debates, unquestioned conceptual formations, and taboo topics in contemporary feminist studies.

"Pursuing Popular Culture includes four sections: textual analysis and representation, production and media technologies, audience engagements, and presenting research. Additionally, the book provides specific instructions in major methodological approaches and references to additional quality materials. Each chapter guides students as to how to choose targets for analysis, write research questions, and select methods that will help them to answer those questions. Instructions are to help students learn how to develop their own explanatory frameworks and/or choose existing theories to make sense of their analyses." -- Cover