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Watching Women : Femininity on TV

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Format Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10 3111324931
ISBN-13 9783111324937
Publisher De Gruyter
Imprint De Gruyter
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Apr 21st, 2025
Print length 220 Pages
Weight 445 grams
Ksh 15,850.00
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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 Bones (2005-2017) and The Rookie: Feds (2022-2023) to teen dramas, with series such as Sex Education (2019-2023) and Charmed (2018-2022), to romance series such as Bridgerton (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.

"Kornfield offers a fresh perspective on fem(me)inine representation, expanding feminist media analysis to include femme epistemologies. Her approach lays bare the complex ways that femininity is embodied, devalued, and regulated and how femmephobic processes are simultaneously challenged and reproduced through televisual mediums. A vital contribution to feminist media studies, Watching Women transforms our understanding of gender representation in media, making it an indispensable resource for anyone interested in femininity and popular culture. Kornfield’s analysis will reshape how we think about fem(me)inine agency and representation in the modern media landscape."
Rhea Ashley Hoskin, PhD, University of Waterloo and St. Jerome’s University, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Femininities

"Deeply researched and meticulously detailed, Watching Women illuminates the ways that televisual style both positions viewers to devalue the feminine and embrace feminist subjectivity. Kornfield offers important insights that challenge readers to reappraise televisual femininity and its relationship to feminist politics."
Kristen Hoerl, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln


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