Abstract

ABSTRACTThe teen television show Gossip Girl positions classed subjectivities as based on an imagined authentic moral value system as opposed to economic reality, with troubling outcomes for middle-class girls. By combining the postfeminist myths of individuality, choice, and success with capitalist ideology, the show preserves a hierarchy in which social climbing is presented as dangerous to only girls. Gossip Girl suggests that middle-class girls' primary value is in their sexual purity, a notion that works to exacerbate gendered economic instability by positioning girls, according to heteronormative dictates, as dependent on men for economic and moral protection.

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