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Description for Defining Women
Paperback. Defining Women: Television and the Case of Cagney and Lacey Num Pages: 358 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: APT; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
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 mainstream and feminist press, various interest groups, and television viewers over competing notions of what women could or could not be--not only on television but in society at large. Cagney and Lacey , which aired from 1981 to 1988, was widely recognized as an ... Read more
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 mainstream and feminist press, various interest groups, and television viewers over competing notions of what women could or could not be--not only on television but in society at large. Cagney and Lacey , which aired from 1981 to 1988, was widely recognized as an ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
358
Condition
New
Number of Pages
358
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807844410
SKU
V9780807844410
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Ref
99-15
About Julie D'acci
Julie D'Acci is assistant professor of communication arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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