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“Her Choice Changed Everything”: Women and Love on Dawson’s Creek and Felicity

Meyers, Celina-Beth
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1151012476

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2006, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, Popular Culture.
This thesis uses the television characters Joey Potter (Dawson's Creek) and Felicity Porter (Felicity) as case studies of how media images of women often display feminist tendencies while simultaneously promoting traditional female roles. Though Joey and Felicity each exhibit a number of positive, feminist qualities over the course of their respective series, this is largely overshadowed (or possibly cancelled out) by the substantial emphasis placed upon their romantic relationships with men. Using textual analysis of Dawson’s Creek and Felicity, this study examines specific ways in which each show shapes its narratives to present men and romance as the central focus of Joey and Felicity’s lives and how this undermines the series’ attempts to fashion these characters as modern, independent women. This mix of progressive and regressive female characterization is typical postfeminist fare, so these depictions are explored in relation to postfeminism and the interplay between feminism and femininity.
Becca Cragin (Advisor)
61 p.
Women's Studies
Dawson's Creek; Felicity; Television; Teen Drama; Postfeminism; Feminism; Femininity; Gender; Romance

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  • Meyers, C.-B. (2006). “Her Choice Changed Everything”: Women and Love on Dawson’s Creek and Felicity [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1151012476

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Meyers, Celina-Beth. “Her Choice Changed Everything”: Women and Love on Dawson’s Creek and Felicity. 2006. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1151012476.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Meyers, Celina-Beth. "“Her Choice Changed Everything”: Women and Love on Dawson’s Creek and Felicity." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1151012476

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