Difficult Women on Television Drama

Difficult Women on Television Drama analyses select case studies from international TV dramas to examine the unresolved feminist issues they raise or address: equal labor force participation, the demand for sexual pleasure and freedom, opposition to sexual and domestic violence, and the need for intersectional approaches.

Autorentext

Isabel Pinedo is Professor in the Department of Film & Media at Hunter College, CUNY.

Klappentext

Difficult Women on Television Drama analyses select case studies from international TV dramas to examine the unresolved feminist issues they raise or address: equal labor force participation, the demand for sexual pleasure and freedom, opposition to sexual and domestic violence, and the need for intersectional approaches.

Inhalt

1. The Rise of Difficult Women in Serial Narrative Television Drama (20052020); 2. Economic Inequality and the Working Mother: The Killing in Denmark and the U.S.; 3. Female Sexual Pleasure and Freedom: Outlander and Westworld; 4. Violence Against Women and Women Who Kill: Big Little Lies, Orange is the New Black, and Wentworth; 5 Intersectionality: Beyond the White Female Subject; 6. Conclusion; Index