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- Title
Gangster Feminism: The Feminist Cultural Work of HBO's "The Sopranos."
- Authors
Johnson, Merri Lisa
- Abstract
This article argues that the third season of the HBO series "The Sopranos" can be read as a sophisticated feminist analysis of the social, economic and cultural roots of gendered violence. The author demonstrates that there is a thin line between a media critique of violence and its reproduction in shows such as "The Sopranos." She seeks to read representations of violence as both reiterations of sexism and primetime challenges to sexism. She asserts that the third season of the television series persistently took up the feminist cultural work of examining the economic and social roots of violence.
- Subjects
FEMINISTS; SOPRANOS, The (TV program); VIOLENCE; SEXISM; ATTITUDE (Psychology); SEXUAL psychology
- Publication
Feminist Studies, 2007, Vol 33, Issue 2, p269
- ISSN
0046-3663
- Publication type
Article