120159 20240319081006.0 doi 10.1080/14680777.2022.2137830 sideral 131036 ART-2022-131036 eng Oria, Beatriz Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-0663-0519 Women on top? Challenging the “Mancession” narrative in the 2010s chick flick 2022 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted The term “mancession” appeared after the economic crisis, spreading the false assumption that men were more affected by the recession than women. This discourse was fuelled across different US media outlets, including film. Some genres, such as the corporate melodrama, supported this rhetoric directly, while others did so more obliquely, as is the case of the chick flick, which pivoted to the trope of the successful working woman during the 2010s. While some contemporary films seem to pander to the myth of the “mancession” by showing women getting ahead in their careers while men fall implicitly or explicitly behind, this article argues that there is an increasing number of chick flicks that highlight sexism and gender inequality at the workplace, challenging postfeminist images of female success and empowerment. The essay analyzes how post-2008 (but pre-pandemic) working woman chick flicks downplay traditional concerns in the genre, such as romance, and open their scope to focus on women’s professional struggles, deploying the “mancession” narrative only to expose its contrivance, thus showing a greater feminist awareness than many of their predecessors often do. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/H23-20R info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/PID2020-114338GB-I00 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc-nd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ 1.7 2022 WOMENS STUDIES 20 / 45 = 0.444 2022 Q2 T2 COMMUNICATION 70 / 96 = 0.729 2022 Q3 T3 0.82 2022 Communication 2022 Q1 Visual Arts and Performing Arts 2022 Q1 Gender Studies 2022 Q1 3.0 2022 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 3004 345 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema. Área Filología Inglesa 23, 8 (2022), 3793-3808 Femi. media sutud. Feminist media studies 1468-0777 616715 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/120159/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 855362 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/120159/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:120159 articulos driver 2024-03-18-14:38:42 ARTICLE