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Feminist Frequency is a web series created by Anita Sarkeesian and co-written by video remixer Jonathan McIntosh to analyze pop culture from a feminist perspective. The point of the series is to point out female character archetypes, mostly negative criticism towards what she regards as the Unfortunate Implications that ensue from various shows ...
Troubled Production: The subject of a video detailing its fall from grace. Feminist Frequency began extremely humbly in 2009, when Anita was still a student at York University. The initial 'Tropes vs Women' videos were literally filmed in Anita's living room, with a bedsheet serving as her backdrop. Thus she was unprepared for the instant (and ...
Apr 29, 2017 · For more than four years, the YouTube channel Feminist Frequency has published new entries in the essay series Tropes vs Women, carefully breaking down the many tired conventions about how women ...
Feminist Frequency is a web series created by Anita Sarkeesian to analyze pop culture from a feminist/fangirl perspective. The point of the series is to point out female character representations, mostly negative criticism towards the Unfortunate Implications that ensue from various shows and movies. They have created a six-part mini-series on "Tropes V.S. Women", which just so happens to use ...
- Pose
- Cable Girls
- Bridgerton
- Rookie Historian Goo Hae-Ryung
- The Hockey Girls
- Unorthodox
- Aggretsuko
- Anne with An E
- Call The Midwife
- Self Made
Poseis critically acclaimed for a reason. Set in 1980s New York City, the Emmy-nominated FX series follows Blanca (MJ Rodriguez), who decides to start the House of Evangelista and build her own LGBTQ+ community after being kicked out of her previous house for being HIV-positive. The series follows a number of trans and queer characters and celebrat...
Netflix’s first Spanish language original, Cable Girls is a drama that follows a group of women who join the workforce as telephone operators. It takes place between 1928 and the beginning of Francisco Franco’s 40-year dictatorship in 1939, during which women’s rights and freedoms were repressed. Across the show’s five seasons, the women band toget...
Not only does this ultra-popular period dramafeature a diverse cast and stunning gowns andhairstyles, it tackles feminist themes. The Shondaland-produced series shows how differently society works for women who are lower income and don’t fit into typical beauty standards. While it’s faced criticism for a scene in which Daphne Bridgerton ignores sex...
Written by female screenwriter Kim Ho-soo, this Korean drama follows Hae-ryung and three other women as they become the first female court historians during the Joseon dynasty — a time when many women were illiterate and expected to be subservient to men. Hae-ryung confronts sexism at the palace while matching wits with Prince Yi Rim, a sweet young...
Created by four film students from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, this 2019 Catalan-language series centers around a girls hockey team who bands together to stay afloat after their male coach leaves and the team’s owner threatens to shut them down. “We’re sick of having women’s sports relegated to the background!” the girls yell during a pro...
Netflix’s first series to be primarily in Yiddish, Unorthodox is inspired byDeborah Feldman's 2012 autobiography about running away from her strict Hasidic community to live a secular life in Berlin. Created by two women, the show movingly explores how constrained Esty feels by the expectation that she ignore her musical aspirations and dedicate he...
Aggretsukois an animated series that follows a cute Sanrio red panda who loves death metal, so you might be surprised to learn it’s about sexism in the workplace. Every day, Retsuko is expected to bring her boss tea — because it’s a “woman’s job” — and work overtime while her male colleagues party. In response, Retsuko rents out private karaoke roo...
The world of Avonlea gets an update in this adaptation of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s beloved 1908 novel Anne of Green Gables. Sharper and more serious than the book, the Canadian show tackles a variety of issues each season, from psychological trauma to homophobia and racism. Anne Shirley is still as outspokenly feminist as ever, and the show adds in n...
Few shows discuss the intricacies of women's health issues, especially through the lens of poverty. Heidi Thomas’ BBC drama Call the Midwife is based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth, a British nurse who worked alongside an Anglican community of nuns to aid low income people in the east end of London. It follows a group of 1950s nurses who assist p...
Octavia Spencer shines in this true story about Sarah Breedlove, aka Madam C.J. Walker, the woman who pioneered the modern hair care and cosmetics industry for Black women in the early 1900s. While the limited series does take several liberties with Walker’s story, it’s inspired by a biography written by Walker’s great-great-granddaughter. Ultimate...
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Television: Iron Jawed Angels (2004): Focuses on the American women's suffrage movement during the 1910s and follows women's suffrage leaders Alice Paul and Lucy Burns. Feminism tends to take one of two forms when depicted in the media: Angry, scary bra-burners and vague declarations of "Girl Power". Of course, in reality, ….
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