Prime-Time Feminism: Television, Media Culture, and the ...
Bonnie J. Dow
Cagney and Lacey''s feminist aspirations did not go unquestioned, leading to the show''s troubled history on prime-time and a gradual softening of its politics, a process beautifully documented and analyzed by Julie D''Acci in Defining \\bmen: Television and the Case of Cagney and Lacey (1994). D''Acci partially links the program''s troubles to the backlash against feminism in the 1980s. She argues that Cagney and Larry''s representation of feminism "changed . . . from a criticism of ...