1. Introduction
Section 1: Aesthetic Labour
2. “The person inside has experienced the most change…”: The labour of fitness, positivity and narratives of suffering
3. Selling Sunset… and my postfeminist sexual capital
4. ‘Millennial dumplings’ at work: Aesthetic and emotional labour in US sitcoms Shrill (2019- 21) and Mythic Quest (2020-)
5 Making Nüzhubo: Commodified Intimacy and Gendered Labour in Chinese Live/Life Streaming
Section 2: Politics and Policies
6. Representation of women peacebuilders in the Nigerian TV news media
7. Recuperating Women’s Care Work in 2010s Television Fictions of Nurses and Nursing in the Neoliberal NHS
8. “I took a dump on the glass ceiling”: Veep, (the Absence of) Competence and Populist Political Culture
Section 3: Relationships and Power
9. “I am the highest paid showrunner in Television!” Shonda Rhimes’ work and influence in the media industry
10 Control and the fallacy of agency: negotiating neoliberal workplaces and toxic work environments
11. “You Deserve to Be Satisfied”: Women in Tech and the Affective Reconfiguration of the Workplace through Song in Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist
12. Work it, robot! Exploring I’m Your Man [Ich bin dein Mensch] (2021) and The Trouble With Being Born (2020)
Section 4: Sex and Sexuality
13. Queering Mothering, Labour, and Illness in Tully
14. A quest for self? Work as an identity in the Japanese movie 37 seconds
15. Representing Sex Workers: The Experiences of Shae, Ros and Daisy in Game of Thrones (2011-2019).