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Privacy, Professionalism, and the Female Lawyer: Intimate Publicness in The Good Wife

"The legal drama – a staple of American popular culture – has evolved as one of the "masculine" genres in the gendered landscape of television culture. A type of workplace drama focusing on professional settings historically dominated by men, it traditionally dramatizes "a world where men played the only important parts and where male bonding and inter-male conflict were dominant elements in the narrative," to adapt Kenneth MacKinnon’s general observations about "masculine" tv (69). Yet the gendering of the (traditional) legal drama goes well beyond the ubiquity of male characters: It is deeply ingrained in the figuration of the lawyer that classic instances of the genre established..." / "Der vorliegende Beitrag ist die pre-print Version. Bitte nutzen Sie für Zitate die Seitenzahl der Original-Version." (siehe Quellenangabe)

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:28899
Date January 2015
CreatorsKanzler, Katja
PublisherUniversitätsverlag Winter GmbH
Source SetsHochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden
LanguageGerman
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typedoc-type:bookPart, info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart, doc-type:Text
SourceFiz, Karsten (Hrsg.), Harju, Bärbel (Hrsg.), Cultures of Privacy: Paradigms, Transformations, Contestations. Heidelberg: Universitätsverl. Winter GmbH, 2015. (Publikationen der Bayerischen Amerika-Akademie, 17) S. 209-226. ISBN 978-3-8253-6545-5
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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