Watching Women

Femininity on TV
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-11-132493-7
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 40, 210 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 445 g

Reihe: De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences

The women on television series are spectacularly feminine. They are the most beautiful doctors, lawyers, detectives, scientists, queens, fashion-writers, moms, Victorian ladies, and witches ever seen. Focusing on series that celebrate empowered women from mainstay crime dramas such as (2005-2017) and (2022-2023) to teen dramas, with series such as (2019-2023) and (2018-2022), to romance series such as (2020-), this book analyzes the onscreen portrayals of femme, femininity, and feminism. Specifically, this book maps the televisual trends that objectify femininity and those that visualize femininity as subject, working to demonstrate how televisual style constructs femininity through its onscreen portrayals.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of Communication, Media Studies, Women’s St

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kornfield, Sarah

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Fernsehen & Rundfunk
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur

Über Autor(innen)

Sarah Kornfield (Ph.D., Penn State) is Professor of Communication and an Affiliated Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Hope College. She analyzes the public persuasion of sexism and her research focuses on how gender is performed, produced, and constructed in U.S. television.

Sarah Kornfield (Ph.D., Penn State) is Professor of Communication and an Affiliated Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Hope College. She analyzes the public persuasion of sexism and her research focuses on how gender is performed, produced, and constructed in U.S. television.