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  1. This presentation begins with an analysis of selling Sunset,
  2. a four part netflix series that follows high
  3. profile real estate agents employed by an L.
  4. A. Based company called the open home group.
  5. Selling Sunset is a definitive example of post feminist television,
  6. I intend to determine the degree to
  7. which selling Sunset coincides with feminist ideologies,
  8. as well as the degree to which it glosses over them.
  9. My research is largely predicated upon Amanda de
  10. lots is 2001 articles surrounding post feminist television.
  11. Firstly, I will be investigating what loss defines as the superwoman archetype,
  12. A superwoman repatriates traditional family roles in Louisville.
  13. Newfound sense of autonomy and self sufficiency,
  14. she's liberated from the conventions of motherhood and marriage
  15. and effectively balances both her professional and personal pursuits,
  16. given that its main cast exclusively comprises of working
  17. women selling sense that emblem utilizes this paradigm.
  18. Although most actresses are in relationships,
  19. romance is used as a subsidiary theme in the show,
  20. whereas their careers properly build the foundation for the plot.
  21. Unlike the generic damsel in distress, who is constantly searching for love,
  22. the woman on the show have explicitly stated that they
  23. do not necessarily need a heterosexual partner to feel fulfilled.
  24. Furthermore,
  25. some sense that uses the workplace as
  26. a platform for contemplating feminist discourses.
  27. The audience usually follows the cast during showings and
  28. open houses and watches them resolve office related issues.
  29. The actresses overtly take pride in their knowledge of architecture,
  30. interior design,
  31. and real estate and are collectively celebrated whenever they make sales
  32. by including these scenes selling sense that emulates the public
  33. sphere where women are omnipresent in the labor force.
  34. More importantly,
  35. the show concretize is and even encourages the notion that women are
  36. fully capable of taking on roles
  37. that historically and conventionally belong to men
  38. Now.
  39. It is important to note that post feminist drama has notoriously negated its own
  40. values through its exclusion of minority groups
  41. through this concept of Us and them.
  42. It does this by favoring casting actresses who
  43. largely enjoy the privileges of being white,
  44. upper class, attractive, educated and heterosexual
  45. by simply looking at the images on the screen,
  46. it is safe to say that the woman on selling
  47. Sunset conform to these cliches standards of beauty and affluence.
  48. So all those sounds sunset has a full cast of working women.
  49. They seemingly belong to the 1% of society with net worths as high as £3.75 million.
  50. The actress is comfortably afford for current consumption habits,
  51. purchasing the most
  52. serious and exorbitant variations of just about everything.
  53. They aren't entirely relatable because they innately possess fortunes and
  54. opportunities that the majority of the population cannot easily attain.
  55. With that selling Sunset makes a
  56. half hearted approach towards female empowerment.
  57. It omits the fact that the women were already incredibly
  58. wealthy public figures prior to becoming real estate agents.
  59. They had large social media followings there on tv shows,
  60. they were professional models.
  61. The show failed to consider the impact of not only social status,
  62. but also sexuality.
  63. Race and gender on the journey to success.
  64. Because it has a homogeneous and stereotypical cast,
  65. it almost tells the audience you can be a
  66. superwoman under the premise that you are white,
  67. blond, wealthy, tall and slim.
  68. Amanda lot suggests that television too often defaults to liberal feminism,
  69. a branch of feminism that heavily advocates for equal rights between men and women.
  70. Liberal feminism concentrates in the public sphere,
  71. but in turn neglects power relations women
  72. may inhabit within their personal lives selling Sunset
  73. abides by this in mirrors of society
  74. where working women are becoming increasingly successful,
  75. but it overlooks the existence of patriarchal motives,
  76. motives within a woman's private interactions and relationships.
  77. For example,
  78. the left hand photograph captures twin brothers,
  79. Brett and Jason Oppenheim who found it and now run the open heim group.
  80. Jason previously dated mary, his colleague and co actress pictured on the right
  81. in the show,
  82. Jason frequently assigned mary too big
  83. listings that entailed significantly greater amounts of
  84. commission than those given to the other woman in the open hand group.
  85. This was swiftly brought to the attention of the remaining
  86. actresses who described it as an act of favoritism.
  87. In spite of this,
  88. the issue was only questioned briefly and it
  89. was never fully addressed even in later seasons.
  90. In fact,
  91. a flirtatious relationship between Jason and mary persisted throughout the show
  92. in doing this selling Sunset seemingly takes on a liberal feminist approach.
  93. The actresses are allegedly self governed, strong and independent,
  94. but to what extent are their success is determined by their male executives,
  95. Brett and Jason.
  96. Instead of interrogating these power dynamics and
  97. investigating their association to gender inequalities,
  98. the show simply romanticizes Jason and mary's intimate work relationship.
  99. Brett and Jason appear in almost every episode of the show.
  100. Yet the sheer fact that they are
  101. the woman's employers is brushed aside rather plainly
  102. sally. Sunset internalizes contradictions and tensions within post feminism.
  103. It succeeds in employing women who proudly swim upstream in the business world.
  104. Yet it concomitantly fails to interrogate the impact of race, class, gender,
  105. and power on a woman's ability to triumph to be the superwoman it promotes.