Twenty-Something Girls v. Thirty-Something Sex And The City Women

Paving the way for “post? feminism”

Bibliographic Data

ID12690806
AuthorsM Nash (0000-0002-7429-4924, corresponding author), R Grant (0000-0003-3007-0168)
Year2015
Volume15
Issue6
Pages976-991
Publication date2015-06-17
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueFeminist Media Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1468-0777 • E-ISSN: 1471-5902
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14680777.2015.1050596
OpenAlexW1496263559
LanguageEN
Citations received31
References cited28

Lena Dunhams cable television series Girls is a candid and comical look at the lives of four youngwomen living in Brooklyn, New York. Following in the footsteps of the earlier post-feminist, womancentredtelevision series, Sex and the City (SATC), Girls explores numerous feminist themes centringon an exploration of what it is like to be a young white woman in contemporary US society. Yetwhat kind of post-feminist narrative is being constructed in Girls? How is post-feminism deployed inthe show? In a comparative analysis of Girls (Seasons 12) and SATC (Seasons 16), we argue thatalthough both shows certainly exemplify post-feminist culture, they are inflected differently inrelation to the representation of sexualities, reproductive choice, and feminine embodiment.Compared to SATC, we argue that Girls represents a novel approach to representing young USwomens 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 describeDunhams version of post-feminism for a millennial generation

Sociology · Cinema and Media Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Psychology · Social Media and Politics

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