Abstract
This article critically analyzes the gendering of madness on Enlightened and Homeland through the lens of feminist disability studies as it functions in relation to feminist theoretical debates about whether mental illness is a social construction designed to control unruly subjects or an embodied response to social and personal trauma. This analysis unpacks the manner in which Homeland and Enlightened represent female protagonists whose madness functions both as a site of resistance against neoliberal logics of self-sufficiency and productivity and as an embodied, experiential reality. However, in both programs, these representative strands are positioned as entirely independent of one another—resistance is limited to the workplace, while embodiment fits within the domain of home and family—and both narratives punish their protagonists for their attempts to bridge these two spheres.
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