ABSTRACT

This study analyzes the representation of temporalities that govern the lives of older women in the series Grace and Frankie . Using the method of semiotic discourse analysis, it explores how the series’ main characters react to neoliberal temporality as it is manifested in old women’s lives. Drawing on Michel Foucault 1988 theoretical framework, we show that the two protagonists, Grace and Frankie, use a variety of technologies of the self that help them cope with power mechanisms that push them to the margins of social time, thus increasing their degrees of freedom vis-à-vis these mechanisms. By unpacking the different technologies of the self that are manifested in each character’s actions as well as in their relationships, we argue that the series identifies contemporary options for old women to deal with the contradictions that neoliberal culture generates between being an autonomous subject and being an old woman.

摘要

本研究分析了《格蕾丝和弗兰基》系列中支配老年女性生活的时间性的表现。它运用符号学话语分析的方法，探讨了该剧的主角如何应对新自由主义的时间性，因为它体现在老年妇女的生活中。借鉴米歇尔·福柯1988年的理论框架，我们展示了两位主角格蕾丝和弗兰基使用多种自我技术来帮助他们应对将他们推向社会时间边缘的权力机制，从而增加他们的自由度相对于这些机制。通过解开每个角色的行为及其关系中所体现的不同的自我技术，我们认为该系列为老年妇女确定了当代的选择，以处理新自由主义文化在作为一个自主主体和作为一个被统治者之间产生的矛盾。老妇人。