Sharon Bowers is an independent scholar who is interested in the intersections of gender, narrative and popular culture. She has presented at national and regional pop culture conferences on texts such as “ER,” “Fastlane” and “The L-Word.” The author of the novel Lucifer Rising and a contributor to the NYPD Blue anthology What Would Sipowicz Do?, she is currently working on a book-length examination of competitive discourses of sexuality in primetime television. As someone who considers herself a free-floating signifier, she admires Edie’s interrogative potential (if not her fashion sense) but wishes she had Bree’s proficiency with a handgun (not to mention a basket of her muffins).