Love And Romance In Sex And The City

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Sex, Love, and Romance Presented in Sex and the City
Today, love, sex and romance are three main topics that presented in media as main themes discuss in contemporary popular culture. Social media is important in shaping audience value about feminism through the framework of contemporary media like films, magazines, plays, advertisements, TV shows, graphic novels, etc. The television show “Sex and the City” incorporates “pop feminism” that influences many lives of women. Sex and the City is originally talking about four single thirty-something women living in Manhattan. They are coming to New York in order to seek “love and labels” (Sex and the City). The main theme of Sex and the City is concentrating on contemporary American woman’s conception of sex, love, and romance. As we learned from lecture, sex, love, and romance have a history; they are different in different cultures; they are shaped by gender, class, race, ethnicity, nation, ability, and other differences (Lecture Notes). Sex and the City is focusing on modern American woman’s experiences and their thinks with sex, love, and romance. The four main women characters in Sex and the City represent diversity of gender, class, race, ethnicity, religion, age, able-bodiedness through their different experience and expectations of their life (Lecture Notes). Sex and the City represents that the feminism notions of sex, love, and romance are socially constructed, and this social construction of sex, love and romance are featured in these female characters’ personalities.
Four female protagonists’ characteristics created in Sex and the City allows the social constructionist theory have culture influence on modern society instead of essentialism’s idea on human behavior. Accor...

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...legated to certain areas of work or only related to the household. The gender and sex roles of Samantha, Charlotte, Miranda and Carrie created in Sex and the City are broken the common conception of what women should do and what women should be. These characters prove social construction theory by doing things outside of the characteristics that essentialism would determine as women. Women were considered biologically inferior to men, and essentialism helped to promote this assertion. Men used essentialism theory to against women that women could not hold jobs or vote, because their biology made them weak. Feminism ideas portrayed in Sex and City is a useful way to convince people that there was nothing about biology that made women inferior to men. Women also could choose their own life choices and become emotionally solid, and successful in career and finances.

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