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- Title
Diagnosing Dr. House: Codependency, Agency, and Third Wave Contradiction.
- Authors
Amaro, LaurenM.
- Abstract
This essay is a critical feminist analysis that addresses a popular culture representation of agency, codependency, and addiction. This perspective illuminates how the television series, House M.D., uses supporting characters to construct codependency as third wave feminist contradiction that produces various levels of agency. Systematic oppression of codependent characters occurs through representations of exaggerated femininity or masculinity as weakness, unprofessional behavior in the workplace, and reliance on the behavior of the addict. The implications of the objectification of the supporting characters that have been granted contradictory agency suggests a metacontradiction for the series itself.
- Subjects
FEMINIST criticism; CODEPENDENCY; HOUSE, M.D. (TV program); FEMININITY; MASCULINITY; SEXUAL objectification
- Publication
Western Journal of Communication, 2012, Vol 76, Issue 5, p520
- ISSN
1057-0314
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1080/10570314.2012.679983