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- Title
Cautionary tales of liberation and female professionalism: The case against Ally McBeal.
- Authors
Hammers, Michele L.
- Abstract
This paper explores the relationship between female professional identity and cultural associations between femininity and the body, emotion and sexuality. The intersection(s) of existing professional discourses with social and theoretical discourses of the body render recent postfeminist and third-wave feminist discourses, especially as they have been deployed and co-opted by the media, particularly problematic for women professionals. Against this complex theoretical and social background the television series, Ally McBeal, as exemplified by the episode ‘It’s My Party’, operates as a useful case study of the dangers that the co-optation of contemporary feminist discourse(s) poses for professional women.
- Subjects
FEMININITY; PSYCHOLOGY of women; TELEVISION programs; FEMALES; CULTURE
- Publication
Western Journal of Communication, 2005, Vol 69, Issue 2, p167
- ISSN
1057-0314
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/10570310500076890