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Defining Women: Television and the Case of Cagney and Lacey
by
Julie D'Acci
"Defining Women" explores the social and cultural construction of gender and the meanings of "woman," "women," and "femininity" as they were negotiated in the pioneering television series "Cagney and Lacey," starring two women as New York City police detectives. Julie D'Acci illuminates the tensions between the television industry, the series production team, the mainstrea
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Paperback, 344 pages
Published
May 1st 1994
by University of North Carolina Press
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This is one massively boring book. It reads like a doctoral thesis; for example, never use a short and simple term when a much longer, and much fancier one, can do.
The author says that the show was basically influenced by the women's liberal movement although over time it became less liberal in its approach and somewhat more traditional in how it viewed women. It also had a very troubled history, being cancelled, brought back, cancelled, brought back, cancelled, and then brought back as a series ...more
The author says that the show was basically influenced by the women's liberal movement although over time it became less liberal in its approach and somewhat more traditional in how it viewed women. It also had a very troubled history, being cancelled, brought back, cancelled, brought back, cancelled, and then brought back as a series ...more
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