Post Feminist Discourse

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Lindsey Morgulis
December 11, 2014
Professor Keith
ENG 310
Final Paper
Feminist Discourse Recently, in aired television or online steaming, a post-feminism theme has been current and on the rise. Post-feminism generally is about the goal of ameliorating sexism and inequality between the genders. It stemmed from the feminism movement of the 1970’s and claims they have succeeded in achieving what they set out to do. Post-feminists wish to distance themselves from the feminism movement in order to officially be accomplished because society must move on from the issue to accept it into normalcy. Shows such as Girls or Orange is the New Black depicted the struggles for women on the inside and on the outside of society and portrayed these …show more content…

The familiar themes of gender issues, love and struggle are apparent but there is a new outlook the audience is experiencing from. The main characters are no longer the perfect depiction of different types of women, but are now imperfect and flawed, representing the real women of our society; even if these women are not socially acknowledged in popular culture. Girls created a discourse on what was seen as normal. Lena Dunham (the shows creator) created a reality where skinny and perfect is not everything. However, the show only created a discourse to a certain degree because it did not include the minorities that make up our …show more content…

Racial groups throughout the women divide the penitentiary and this allows them to discuss amongst themselves racial stereotypes that have been inflicted upon them. By doing this, Orange is the New Black acknowledges the separation between races, gender and sex and the obvious labels that arise. They do not try to cover up these issues, which results in the audience identifying with the characters. With every race and type of women represented in this show, the post-feminist society uses the characters as representatives and voices of the feminist movement. Now feminism is more then the majority of women (i.e. heterosexual Caucasians) but involve every race and every sexual identity or

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