Roseanne – Third Waver?

Third wave representative for a number of reasons: Creates new possibilities and spaces for third-wave representations Roseanne – shows that 3rd wave is a set of politics, a sensibility, activism that transcends generational lines We are looking at her cultural work in the realm of representation.

making room for contradictions Discourses that encourage ambiguity and complexity. There are limits to a politics of purity – of essentialist or of straight-forward notions of identity. No ways to be completely oppressor or oppressed. that there is no outside to hegemony.

parodic dissonance “Roseanne’s use of parodic dissonance enacts the ambivalent relationship to inside/outside distinctions that marks third wave sensibility” (126). Considered here as a third wave strategy of transgression Transgressive performance of the unruly woman

She performs an unacceptable version of femininity – in order to critique the systems that have had the power to define it in the first place. She illustrates the idea that “woman” or the signifiers of acceptable womanhood can be put on and taken off – illustrating them as performative.  

Mary Russo Mary Russo: “the grotesque woman, marked by a performance of parody, excess, and gender masquerade, is a potentially productive strategy for feminist intervention into the category of ‘woman’” (132).

Clips: http://criticalcommons.org/Members/femfreq/clips/roseanne7x22-maleprivilege1.mov/view?searchterm=roseanne http://feministmusicgeek.com/2009/06/04/roseanne-and-riot-grrrls/