Abstract
This paper explores the representation of gender in The Good Wife and Scandal, two American primetime television series, which, pursuant to feminist gains, showcase heroines who are very intelligent and powerful. These series are a site of negotiation between discourses that valorize certain aspects of patriarchal masculinity– notably the power, social success and sex appeal of the patriarchal man –and oppositional feminist discourses.
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