WiSe 23/24: PS-Introduction to Cultural Studies: Life Imitates Art: Intersectionality and Intertextuality in Contemporary Popular Culture
Ji-Soo Kweon
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In feminist scholarship, 'post-feminism' can mean any number of attitudes that emerged in the wake of various movements of women's liberation and sexual revolution. Angela McRobbie describes post-feminism as 'the process by which feminist gains of the 70s and 80s are actively and relentlessly undermined'. Among other things, post-feminism has apparently undermined second wave feminism's encounter with difference and the emergence of intersectionality theory in the 80s and 90s, and can be regarded as a 'sensibility' comprised of capitalist, neo-liberal, feminist and anti-feminist ideals.
Since the cultural watershed of Sex and the City (1998-2004) there has been an enduring niche in American television comedy-drama that has remained fixated on woman-centric narratives exploring female friendship and the sexual politics of New York City. Using an intersectional approach, this course will discuss the post-feminism that informs these texts, and to discuss how issues of diversity and representation have changed and/or remained static over time by comparing Sex and the City with its millennial spiritual successor, Girls (2012-2017).
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