The Golden Girls: Selected Bibliography

• Browne, Kate. The Golden Girls (TV Milestones Series). Wayne State University Press, 2020.
• Browning, Matt. The Definitive Golden Girls Cultural Reference Guide. Lyons Press, 2021.
• Colucci, Jim. Golden Girls Forever: An Unauthorized Look Behind the Lanai. Harper Design, 2016.
• Giacomazzo, Bernadette. The Golden Girls: A Cultural History. Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.

• Ciafone, Amanda. "The Gray Panthers are watching: gray women’s media activism in the 1970s and 80s." Feminist Media Studies 21:2 (2021): 265-280. DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2019.1667400

• Van Bauwel, Sofie. "Invisible golden girls? Post-feminist discourses and female ageing bodies in contemporary television fiction." Feminist Media Studies 18.1 (2018): 21-33. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2018.1409969

• Bell, John. "In search of a discourse on aging: The elderly on television." The Gerontologist 32.3 (1992): 305-311. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/32.3.305

• Berzsenyi, Christyne A. "The Golden Girls share signature stories: Narratives of aging, identity, and communal desire." Americana, the Journal of American Popular Culture, 1900 to Present, Fall 2010, 9.2 (2010). www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/articles/fall_2010/berzsenyi.htm
• Cassidy, Marsha F. "My Students and Betty White: American Television History in the Classroom." Cinema journal, vol. 50, iss. 3, 2011.
• Harwood, Jake and Howard Giles. "'Don't make me laugh': age representations in a humorous context." Discourse & Society, vol. 3, no. 4, 1992.
• Kaler, Anne K. "Golden girls: Feminine archetypal patterns of the complete woman." Journal of Popular Culture 24.3 (1990): 49.
• Kannen, Victoria. "“This is mud on our faces! We’re not really black!” Teaching gender, race, and age through humour in The Golden Girls." Outskirts: feminisms along the edge 35 (2016): B1-B1.
• Lengermann, Patricia Madoo and Jill Niebrugge. "Flirting with equality: a feminist social commentary on the opposition to civil equality for lesbians and gays." NWSA Journal, vol. 7, no. 1, Spring 1995.
• Recio, Rocío Palomeque. "Sex toys for women with arthritis: From the Golden girls to grace and Frankie." HyperCultura 7 (2018): 1-12.
• Patterson, Eleanor. "The Golden Girls Live: residual television texts, participatory culture, and queering TV heritage through drag." Feminist Media Studies 16.5 (2016): 838-851.
• Powell, Elliott H. "‘Staying Golden’: The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Jazz in The Golden Girls." Jazz Research Journal 12.1 (2019): 86-109. https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/JAZZ/article/view/35902
• Schroeder, Stephanie. "CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT:" The Golden Girls": Dorothy Zbornak and Lessons about Social Class." Counterpoints 486 (2017): 195-200.
• West, Thomas J. "“Thank You for Being a Friend:” The Politics, History, and Fandom of The Golden Girls and Its Feminist Message for the Coming Decade." MP: An Online Feminist Journal, vol. 3, issue 1, August 2010. http://academinist.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/030101West_Golden.pdf

• Anderson, Jill E. "Eat Dirt and Die, Trash: Tacky, White Southerners in The Golden Girls and Murder, She Wrote." The Tacky South. Louisiana State University Press (2022): 105-118.
• Bawden, James, and Ron Miller. "Bea Arthur." Conversations with Legendary Television Stars : Interviews from the First Fifty Years. University Press of Kentucky (2019): 34-40.
• Belli, Jill. "More Than Friendship: The Golden Girls as Intentional Community." The 25 Sitcoms that Changed Television: Turning Points in American Culture. Praeger (2017): 137-151.
• Grant, Jo Anna, and Heather L. Hundley. "Myths of Sex, Love, and Romance of Older Women in Golden Girls." Critical thinking about sex, love, and romance in the mass media: Media literacy applications. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (2007): 106. 
• Kelly, Lauren and Sarah Royal. "Creativity and Consolation in The Golden Girls: How Revisiting an Old Show Was a Balm for the New Hard Times." Persevering During the Pandemic: Stories of Resilience, Creativity, and Connection. Lanham: Lexington Books (2022): 157-170.
• Moritz, Marguerite J. "Old Strategies for New Texts: How American Television Is Creating and Treating Lesbian Characters." Queer Words, Queer Images: Communication and the Construction of Homosexuality. NYU Press (1994): 122-142.
• Rawitsch, Elizabeth. "Silence Isn’t Golden, Girls: The Cross-Generational Comedy of ‘America’s Grandma’, Betty White." Ageing, Popular Culture and Contemporary Feminism: Harleys and hormones. Palgrave Macmillan (2014): 172-186.
• Tropiano, Stephen. The Prime Time Closet. Applause Theatre  & Cinema Books (2002).

NBC's 'Golden Girls' Gambles on Grown-Ups (The New York Times)

Out to Lunch With the Golden Girls (The Washington Post)

How to Start Watching The Golden Girls: A Starter Kit (Enough Wicker)

Feeling Magenta: Why Magenta is a Fake Color, & What It Has to Do With Your Feelings (Enough Wicker)

Why is the Funko Pop! of Golden Girls Feminist Character Dorothy Scowling? (and the challenges of representing real people in fan collectibles) (In Media Res)

Golden Girls theme week essays (In Media Res)

Why Hulu is hoping to turn old 'Golden Girls' episodes into a gold mine (CNBC)

A Bioethicist Explains All the Important Lessons We Can Learn from 'The Golden Girls' (VICE)

Golden Girls, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and the Legacies of Hysteria (Nursing Clio)

Deconstructing HIV and AIDS on The Golden Girls (Nursing Clio)

What 'The Golden Girls' Taught Us About AIDS (NPR)

The Artist as Player in "Girls" & "The Golden Girls" (Art Practical)

Picture It: 'The Golden Girls' and Interior Design Nostalgia (We Are the Mutants)

Why 'Golden Girls' matters even to people who weren't born when the series first aired (Chicago Tribune)

Upon Realizing The Golden Girls Was Coming to an End I Sat Down and Wept (Literary Hub)

Why The Golden Girls Was the Most Important Show of Our Generation (Thrillist) 

"Well, excuse me for living, Anita Bryant!" (The Golden Girls Fashion Corner)

Betty White Was Always on TV (Vulture)

How Betty White's Rose Nylund Gave 'Golden Girls" the Perfect Character to Take On Queer Social Issues (Collider)