This week, we welcome a special guest! Dr. Melissa Ames, Director of English Education and a Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at Eastern Illinois University, joins us to talk about mom archetypes, the male/female gaze, and Desperate Housewives as a post-feminist text. Also find out how one podcaster's nightmare about Dr. Ames inspired "Noisy Fulfillment" and the genealogy of texts necessary for the birth of Desperate Housewives and many other "primetime soaps." For more on Dr. Ames and her work, don't forget to check out the links below: https://www.eiu.edu/women/faculty.php?id=mames&subcat= http://smallscreenscholar.blogspot.com ******************************************* If you love what we’re doing and would like to support us further than just as a listener---which we absolutely thank you for--you can REALLY help us out by going to iTunes, leaving us a 5-star review and subscribing to this podcast.  That really helps people find us because analytics = search results.  We will read it on the air. So if you LOVE to hear stuff you’ve written on the air, here’s your chance!  Also, you can become a patron by by going to https://anchor.fm/noisyfulfillment and contributing at any monetary level.  You can also buy us a “coffee” by tipping us in our virtual Tip Jar: https://ko-fi.com/noisyfulfillment. You can also LIKE us on Facebook at facebook.com/noisyfulfillment or email us at [email protected]! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/noisyfulfillment/support