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No Girls Allowed: Television Boys’ Clubs As Resistance To Feminism, Pamela Hill Nettleton Phd Dec 2016

No Girls Allowed: Television Boys’ Clubs As Resistance To Feminism, Pamela Hill Nettleton Phd

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This article analyzes the male-only spaces present in four television series, FX’s The Shield, Nip/Tuck , Rescue Me, and ABC’s Boston Legal, which each include a gendered territory as a recurring feature. I argue that these homosocially segregated environments enforce boundaries against women and shelter intense bromance relationships that foreclose romantic relationships of any kind, acting as physical incarnations of troubling retrograde sexual politics and ideologies. I also assert that the “boys’ clubs” in which these narratives take place, enabled and empowered by the aesthetic dimensions of architecture and design, help establish workplace patriarchy as commonplace, reasonable, and …


Hanging With The Boys: Homosocial Bonding And Bromance Coupling In Nip/Tuck And Boston Legal, Pamela Hill Nettleton Dec 2015

Hanging With The Boys: Homosocial Bonding And Bromance Coupling In Nip/Tuck And Boston Legal, Pamela Hill Nettleton

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

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