Women's Studies 2161A/B Chapter w,3: W3-Reading Notes Monday October 2nd 2017
16 Mar 2018
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Created by melissa rosenberg for netflix, jessica jones is based on the marvel comics character of the same name. Jessica jones is both hero and antihero, a ptsd-plagued private investigator and sexual assault survivor using cheap whiskey and acerbic smarts to cope after her grievous entanglements with the insidious, mind-controlling villain kilgrave. She is an honest, realistic representation of an abuse survivor attempting to navigate the world. The show uses the grandiosity and symbolic power of superhero stories to articulate truths about surviving abuse, and about the nature of abuse itself including how people become abusers. Kilgrave"s powers are a metaphor for male privilege: he can, easily and with impunity, bend the world to his whims. Kilgrave is a product of our boy-gets-girl world. Jessica is loosened with drink, venting her own helplessness out on a woman who has had the liberty of exerting her own will. In the end, jessica pulls the woman off the tracks.
