Departmental News
Stillion Southard Authors Study of TV Feminism
Department of Communication Ph.D. candidate Belinda Stillion Southard
is the author of a study entitled "Beyond the Backlash: Sex and the City and Three Feminist Struggles," published in the April 2008 issue of Communication Quarterly.
Stillion Southard maintains in the essay that while Sex and the City can be read as a postfeminist text, she aims to recover the show's feminist meanings. To that end, her essay situates SATC within three key feminist struggles—between the individual and the collective, feminism and femininity, and agency and victimization. As Carrie, Charlotte, Miranda, and Samantha face each of these struggles, they often embody complex feminist identities. Exploring these complexities highlights SATC's participatory elements as they relate to the ongoing feminist project.
Citation: Southard, Belinda A. Stillion, "Beyond the Backlash: Sex and the City and Three Feminist Struggles," Communication Quarterly 56 (2008): 149-167.
