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Twenty-something girls v. thirty-something Sex And The City women: paving the way for ‘post? feminism’?
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Nash, MB and Grant, R, Twenty-something girls v. thirty-something Sex And The City women: paving the way for post? feminism'?, Feminist Media Studies, 15, (6) pp. 976-991. ISSN 1471-5902 (2015) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1080/14680777.2015.1050596
Abstract
Lena Dunham’s cable television series Girls is a candid and comical look at the lives of four young
women living in Brooklyn, New York. Following in the footsteps of the earlier post-feminist, womancentred
television series, Sex and the City (SATC), Girls explores numerous feminist themes centring
on an exploration of what it is like to be a young white woman in contemporary US society. Yet
what kind of post-feminist narrative is being constructed in Girls? How is post-feminism deployed in
the show? In a comparative analysis of Girls (Seasons 1–2) and SATC (Seasons 1–6), we argue that
although both shows certainly exemplify post-feminist culture, they are inflected differently in
relation to the representation of sexualities, reproductive "choice," and feminine embodiment.
Compared to SATC, we argue that Girls represents a novel approach to representing young US
women’s lives on television, re-articulating and re-mobilising existing conceptualisations of postfeminism.
To conclude, we propose that the term "post? feminism" may be used to describe
Dunham’s version of post-feminism for a millennial generation
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | femininity; gender; popular culture; post-feminism; television |
Research Division: | Language, Communication and Culture |
Research Group: | Cultural studies |
Research Field: | Screen and media culture |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in human society |
UTAS Author: | Nash, MB (Associate Professor Meredith Nash) |
UTAS Author: | Grant, R (Dr Ruby Grant) |
ID Code: | 101753 |
Year Published: | 2015 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 30 |
Deposited By: | School of Social Sciences |
Deposited On: | 2015-07-06 |
Last Modified: | 2018-04-12 |
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