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Xena: Warrior Princess as feminist camp

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'Xena: Warrior Princess' is a fantasy-action adventure television show where a woman was placed in the role of a traditional hero on a quest. The show's popularity extends beyond the United States such that it is among the top ten syndicated series worldwide. Part of the show's success can be attributed to the contradictory representation of the main character Xena. Among this contradictions are the feminist content of the story situated in the tradition of the patriarchy and the presence of both masculine and feminine traits in Xena's appearance and character.

Feminism, Masculinity, Syndication of television programs, Television syndication

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"Faking a sonogram": Representations of motherhood on Sex and the City

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The television show 'Sex and the City' challenges dominant discourses on pregnancy and motherhood, depicting a character who yearns for a baby, while another struggles with the reality of pregnancy and motherhood, speaking of 'faking a sonogram' as she feels under pressure to feel excited about being pregnant. The show realistically depicts the hardships for twenty-first century women to balance family, professional and personal life, even as the media as representations of beauty and elegance projected the real-life pregnancies of two actresses in the show.

Sex and the City (Television program), Urban women

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Frustrating female heroism: Mixed messages in Xena, Nikita, and Buffy

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The three television series, Xena: Warrior Princess, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and La Femme Nikita, feature strong women warriors who fight evil, project troubling and sexist images and plot lines that neither advance nor celebrate feminism. The three shows offer glimpses of hopeful female heroism, but they also frustrate those hopes by ultimately projecting realism rather than optimism, by portraying the heroines through mostly conventional representations of sexuality and physical and emotional femininity, also handling threatening domestic relationships.

Femmes fatales, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Television program), La Femme Nikita (Television program)

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