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MAPPING FEMINISM:
REPRESENTING WOMEN’S LIBERATION
IN 1970S POPULAR MEDIA
by
Jennifer Susanne Clark
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(CRITICAL STUDIES)
May 2007
Copyright 2007 Jennifer Susanne Clark
Object Description
| Title | Mapping feminism: representing women's liberation in 1970s popular media |
| Author | Clark, Jennifer Susanne |
| Author email | jennifsc@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Cinema-Television (Critical Studies) |
| School | School of Cinema-Television |
| Date defended/completed | 2006-12-11 |
| Date submitted | 2007 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2007-04-28 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Polan, Dana |
| Advisor (committee member) |
McPherson, Tara Modleski, Tania |
| Abstract | This dissertation explores the role of 1970s popular media and the U.S. Women's Liberation Movement in constructing representations of female liberation. Feminism posed significant challenges to conventional techniques of representing women, creating a state of representational uncertainty within the Movement and within the industries of television, film, and other mainstream media. Although feminism and popular media are often perceived as antithetical cultural forces, each operated in a productive relationship, even in dissent, with the other to formulate meaningful images of women's new "liberated" identities.; As a media expression of feminism, the figure of the liberated woman afforded producers, directors, and network executives a new source of storylines, a new aesthetic of producing womanhood, and a new set of business practices based on revised gender ideologies. While feminists based a significant portion of their political energies on protesting media representations of women, they also turned to the media not only as an outlet for their political platform, but also for a grammar of visibility. The Women's Movement selectively borrowed from media to produce and advance their coherence across the geographically and ideologically fragmented category of "Woman."; By identifying and analyzing the particular resolutions to the representational challenges created by feminist forces of the Seventies, this dissertation considers the new spaces, identities, and discourses involved in women's everyday lives, feminist political groups, popular media texts, and media's industrial practices. Exploring film and television texts such as Police Woman, Get Christie Love!, and An Unmarried Woman, as well as women who enacted various forms of liberation that garnered intense media attention and disrupted prevailing gender representations -- Patricia Hearst, Barbara Walters, Angela Davis, and Gloria Steinem, among others -- this project utilizes feminist media theory; critical geography; and theories of gender, race, and sexuality to consider the mutual participation of mainstream media and feminist groups in the construction of female subjectivity within a specific industrial and socio-historical frame. |
| Keyword | television; film; popular media; 1970s Women's Liberation Movement; geography; therapeutic culture |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m470 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Clark, Jennifer Susanne |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Clark-20070428 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume29/etd-Clark-20070428.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | MAPPING FEMINISM: REPRESENTING WOMEN’S LIBERATION IN 1970S POPULAR MEDIA by Jennifer Susanne Clark A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (CRITICAL STUDIES) May 2007 Copyright 2007 Jennifer Susanne Clark |
