Pramaggiore, Maria (2016) From Screwdriver to Dildo: Retooling Women’s Work in Orange Is the New Black. Television and New Media, 17 (6). pp. 547-560. ISSN 1527-4764

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Abstract

This essay examines the depiction of labor in the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black, paying specific attention to gender and race. It argues that the program’s interest in the historical link between coerced prison labor and enslavement in the United States, as well as the more recent implication of prison privatization in the neoliberal assault on labor rights, is undermined by its privileging of affective and interpersonal dynamics over political solidarity

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	critical media studies; cultural politics; feminism; gender; labor; political satire; popular culture; television;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > School of English, Media & Theatre Studies > Media Studies
Item ID:	12980
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476416647494
Depositing User:	Maria Pramaggiore
Date Deposited:	02 Jun 2020 09:47
Journal or Publication Title:	Television and New Media
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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