More than "just a hunch": meaning, feminine intuition and television sleuths

• Other Authors: Dominguez, Sheela Celeste.
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Florida Atlantic University
• Subjects: Women detectives in mass media; Popular culture > History; Popular culture > United States > History > 21st century; Self-actualization (Psychology); Sex differences (Psychology); Thought and thinking > Sex differences; Women in television
• Online Access: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/165938

The rise in popularity of the female sleuth television programs makes it important to explore representations of gender and knowledge. This investigation analyzes interpretations of intuition in the television sleuth genre and relevant paratexts, examines gendered public and private spheres and raises broader questions about gendered knowledge in the series Medium, Crossing Jordan, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Veronica Mars, Monk, The Profiler and True Calling. Rooted in feminist cultural studies, historical and sociological analysis, television and film theory and work on the detective genre, this investigation establishes common frames, or filters, through which the television sleuth genre represents intuition and the gendered experience of knowledge. Women with intuition are depicted as unstable, dangerous and mentally ill. Though framed similarly, intuitive men have more freedom. This study expands on academic research on television representations of gender and knowledge. Societal implications include further understanding of meaning-making in regard to gendered knowing. === by Sheela Celeste Dominguez. === Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2008. === Includes bibliography. === Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2008. Mode of access: World Wide Web.