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The Ungovernable Female Agency: Ingobernable and Resistancia

The Ungovernable Female Agency: Ingobernable and Resistancia

Berrin Yanıkkaya
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 35
ISBN13: 9781799848295|ISBN10: 1799848299|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799854906|EISBN13: 9781799848301
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4829-5.ch009
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Yanıkkaya, Berrin. "The Ungovernable Female Agency: Ingobernable and Resistancia." Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Women, Voice, and Agency, edited by Berrin Yanıkkaya and Angelique Margarita Nairn, IGI Global, 2021, pp. 219-253. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4829-5.ch009

APA

Yanıkkaya, B. (2021). The Ungovernable Female Agency: Ingobernable and Resistancia. In B. Yanıkkaya & A. Nairn (Eds.), Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Women, Voice, and Agency (pp. 219-253). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4829-5.ch009

Chicago

Yanıkkaya, Berrin. "The Ungovernable Female Agency: Ingobernable and Resistancia." In Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Women, Voice, and Agency, edited by Berrin Yanıkkaya and Angelique Margarita Nairn, 219-253. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4829-5.ch009

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Abstract

By following McNay's conceptualization of agency and adapting Mills' feminist stylistics, this chapter examines the creation of female agency and subjectivity in the Mexican political drama Ingobernable [The Ungovernable]. The series has two complete seasons and 27 episodes so far. The plot revolves around the actions of five women, who can be identified with their unexpected and unanticipated as well as disobedient and resistant behaviors at varying levels. Each woman has different relations with power; however, all aim to engender change within the established order. Here, the author proposed a multi-layered method for analyzing female agency and subjectivity in the series by weaving the analysis through women archetypes from Mexican history and argued that female agency is created through audacious and cautious actions in Ingobernable which exists in-between these two action-based tensions.

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