Strategic sisterhood and the girlfriend gaze: Representation of girlfriendship in the Chinese TV drama Ode to Joy

被引：7

作者：

Hu, Tingting ^{[1
]}

Wang, Cathy Yue ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Wuhan Univ, Sch Journalism & Commun, Cherry Blossom Ave, Wuhan 430072, Peoples R China

[2] Shanghai Normal Univ, Sch Humanities, Shanghai, Peoples R China

来源：

CRITICAL STUDIES IN TELEVISION | 2021年 / 16卷 / 04期

关键词：

Chinese TV drama; girls' friendship; middle-class representation; Ode to Joy (2016-2017); postfeminism; sisterhood; women;

D O I：

10.1177/17496020211046378

中图分类号：

J9 [电影、电视艺术]; I235 [电影、电视、广播剧];

学科分类号：

摘要：

This article examines the representation of girlfriendship (Winch A (2013) Girlfriends and Postfeminist Sisterhood. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) in the Chinese TV series Ode to Joy (2016-2017), and in particular, its representation of the interactions between urban women's competence, experience of romance, postfeminist identity and class status in the Chinese gender context. Drawing on Winch's concepts of 'strategic sisterhood' and the 'girlfriend gaze', we first explore how female friendship relies on networks of exchange in terms of economy, career and/or emotion, and then investigate the ways in which young women mutually monitor each other's personal relationships to ensure their heterosexuality in society as a group.

引用

页码：394 / 411

页数：18