Dale Hermanas Dale: uma análise das representações femininas na série One Day at a Time

Abstract

Mass media, such as television and cinema, serve to perpetuate gender stereotypes based on sexist conceptions. However, this reality has been broken over the years from the demand of women for a more credible representation, and by stories that portrays female characters as protagonists of their own destiny. With that in mind, the present work is dedicated to observing and reflecting on how the female representation occurs in serial fictional TV narratives, using as corpus the TV show One Day at a Time. For that, the research analyses the active presence of the women in the series and the elements that make up the identity of the three protagonists: Penelope, Lydia and Elena. Based on the hypothesis of the existence of a movement for the resignification of female representations in the last years, the analysis developed brings an outlook about the feminist movement, questions of identity, consumer society, narrative and character studies that, in the end, show that there have been advances in these female representations, but there is still much to improve to ensure more credible narratives and more credible characters.