"Everything's coming up Rosie": empower America, Rosie O'Donnell, and the construction of daytime reality

Suggests that daytime's talk show women have become critical sites at which public bodies and public spaces are gendered, raced, classed, and sexed. Analyzes popular, political, and industrial discourses to study the attempt of a powerful political group to regulate public expression and social representations in daytime talk. Uses Empower America's 1995 campaign against daytime talk shows as a case study, examining how an elite group sought to control public space through a debate about the content and style of daytime programming. Focues on "The Rosie O'Donnell Show" to show how the power of conservative discourse articulates its politics, inscribes its values on female figures, and claims public space.