The thesis deals with the question of representation of femininity in the American television series Girls (2012) and explores to what extent it corresponds to typical representations of femininity within postfeminist media discourses. Drawing on some key theoretical concepts of cultural studies, the analysis shows that the series, using a number of narrative and visual devices, including the foregrounding of corporeality as an essential building block of feminine identity, treating female protagonists as sexual subjects rather than objects, the emphasis on the selfish individualism characteristic of neoliberal subjectivity, and above all the interweaving of feminist and antifeminist rhetorics, is firmly situated within these discourses, but at the same time adopts a degree of critical distance from them, thus functioning as their updated and to post-recessionary economic realities adapted rearticulation.
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