The Impossible Woman examines scripted television programs featuring exceptional women and how these shows contribute to sexist realism, or the cultural assumption that there is no alternative to patriarchy. This book explains how the problems facing television’s strongest women illustrates television’s inability to imagine a just feminist future.
The Impossible Woman examines scripted television programs featuring exceptional women and how these shows contribute to sexist realism, or the cultural assumption that there is no alternative to patriarchy. This book explains how the problems facing television’s strongest women illustrates television’s inability to imagine a just feminist future.
KRISTEN HOERL is an associate professor of rhetoric and public culture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is the author of The Bad Sixties: Hollywood Memories of the Counterculture, Antiwar, and Black Power Movements.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Sexist Realism and the Crises of Contemporary Feminism Chapter 1: Impossibly Resilient: Parks and Recreation’s Leslie Knope Chapter 2: Improbably Cheerful: The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Chapter 3: Exquisitely Lonely: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and The Queen’s Gambit’s Beth Harmon Chapter 4: Insanely Gifted: Game of Thrones’ Daenerys Targaryen Chapter 5: Gangster Girlboss: The Queen of the South Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Index
Introduction: Sexist Realism and the Crises of Contemporary Feminism Chapter 1: Impossibly Resilient: Parks and Recreation’s Leslie Knope Chapter 2: Improbably Cheerful: The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Chapter 3: Exquisitely Lonely: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and The Queen’s Gambit’s Beth Harmon Chapter 4: Insanely Gifted: Game of Thrones’ Daenerys Targaryen Chapter 5: Gangster Girlboss: The Queen of the South Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Index
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