Post-feminist Friendship in Sex and the City

The television series Sex and the City(1998-2004, HBO) which appeared in 1998 has gone from cult phenomenon to award-winning success. It encouraged many post-feminist academics to discuss passionately its new sense of feminism. One intriguing element of this show is the very positive way female friendship is treated in postfeminist terms. Unlike previous films, in which female friendship often represented a means for securing women's relationships with men, the female friendship in Sex and the City exists for women's own benefits. This paper focuses on the female friendship seen in Sex and the City in terms of the following three areas: 1. Female friendship and the relationship to men. 2. Female friendship as defensive structure. 3. Heterosexual white middle class friendship 1. Female friendship and the relationship to men examines how female friendship and the relationship with men interact. In the next section 2. Female friendship as defensive structure, by examining the social and biological inequality between men and women seen in this show, female friendship as a form of defensive structure from the inequality is explored. In this section, the meaning of talking of one's own sexual experience to other female friends is also examined. Finally in 3. Heterosexual white middle class friendship, Mamoto analyses the female friendship that exists among the white, heterosexual, urban, middle class women protagonists. Moreover, the heterosexual aspects are studied in order to examine how gay and lesbian orientations are positioned.