Discourses of Gender and Race in The Real Housewife’s of Atlanta

• In Event: Objectification, Negotiated Identities and Constitutive Subjectivities

Abstract

The Real Housewife’s of Atlanta is a program that serves as a normative institution embracing consumerism, and vigorously promoting a culture of consumption. Excessive and immeasurable consumption and disposal of resources are some of the ideas of capitalism reinforced in the program. Yet the “real” lives of these five women seem to reflect the economic realities of the country.

Author

• Yarma Velazquez Vargas, California State University, Northridge