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May 27, 1994 · Defining Women explores the social and cultural construction of gender and the meanings of woman , women , and femininity as they were negotiated in the pioneering television series Cagney and Lacey , starring two women as New York City police detectives.
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Defining Women explores the social and cultural construction of gender and the meanings of woman , women , and femininity as they were negotiated in the pioneering television series Cagney and Lacey , starring two women as New York City police detectives.
argues that in the series Cagney and Lacey the female viewer may locate certain strategies at work within the text which serve to disrupt the dominant male gaze. She gives as an example the use of mockery by the two female protagonists, to undermine the machismo of certain of the male characters.
Cagney and Lacey. The arrival of Cagney and Lacey in 1982 broke new and significant ground in television's ever-increasing proliferation of popular cop series in that the stars were women—a pair of undercover detectives out there with New York 's finest, unafraid to walk into the threat of violence, or to use a gun when necessary.
Defining Women explores the social and cultural construction of gender and the meanings of woman, women, and femininity as they were negotiated in the pioneering television series Cagney and Lacey, starring two women as New York City police detectives.
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Defining Women explores the social and cultural construction of gender and the meanings of woman, women, and femininity as they were negotiated in the pioneering television series Cagney and Lacey, starring two women as New York City police detectives.