Abstract
Sex and the City has been the subject of close scrutiny within feminist scholarship in terms of whether it is considered to be a reactionary or progressive text. While this debate is valuable within a modernist feminist paradigm, it makes less sense from a post-modernist feminist perspective. Alternately using semiotic and feminist post-structuralist methods of textual analysis, this paper shows that Sex and the City can be viewed as reactionary according to a modernist reading, but is altogether more challenging and complex according to a post-modernist reading.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 91-98 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Women and Language |
Volume | 32 |
Issue number | 1 |
Publication status | Published - 2009 |
Keywords
- Sex and the City
- feminism
- modernism
- post-modernism
- feminist perspective
- semiotic
- feminist post-structuralism
- textual analysis