Defining Women Television and the Case of Cagney and Lacey

Name: Defining Women Television and the Case of Cagney and Lacey
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ISBN: 9780807844410

ISBN-10: 0807844411

ISBN-13: 9780807844410

Edition: 1994

Authors: Julie D'Acci, Julie D'Acci

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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 benot only on television but in society at large. Cagney and Lacey, which aired from 1981 to 1988, was widely recognized as an innovative treatment of working women and developed a large and loyal following.…

Book details

List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 5/27/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 358
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.132



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Women Characters and "Real World" Femininity



A Women's Audience



A Woman's Program



Negotiating Feminism



Female/Feminine/Feminist Audiences, Spectators, and Readings


Conclusion


Notes


Episode Script: "A Cry for Help"


Index