Women’s bodies reappropriation in television fiction. analysis of "Orange is the New Black"

• Main Authors: Patricia Martínez García, Delicia Aguado-Peláez
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad Complutense de Madrid 2017-12-01
• Series: Investigaciones Feministas
• Subjects: Análisis Crítico del Discurso con Perspectiva Feminista (ACDF); Cuerpo() femenino(s); Estudios de Género y Feminismo; Orange is the New Black; (Contra)Violencia en la televisión.
• Online Access: http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/INFE/article/view/54974

Traditionally, fictional television stereotypes women and it become them invisible because of a representation linked to pleasure of men, only like a passive object. However, the <em>Third Golden Age of Television</em> allows spaces to products that break this normative androcentric model, such as <em>Orange is the New Black</em> (Netflix, 2013). Thus, this research study the discourses about women sexuality and bodies through a Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis. In particular, it uses two paradigmatic episodes where these topics are dealt:<em> A Whole Other Hole </em>(204) and <em>Fear, and Other Smells</em> (308). In these sense, Jenji Kohan’s drama allows to re-appropriate women`s sexualities and bodies through a diverse representation and breaking the patriarchy’s silences about female realities.