Keep It Right - Homeland: The Female Body, Disability, and Nation
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Keywords
feminism, disability, Homeland (TV series)
Abstract
This article will look at how Homeland’s main character, Carrie Mathison, is used as a metaphor for the current cultural state of fear in the post-9/11 United States by demonstrating the effects of internalized sexism and ableism within the representation of a disabled woman’s experience in the articulation of her gender, race, disability, and sexuality.
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Joelle Rouleau, University of Montréal, Canada
Joelle Rouleau is a PhD candidate of the joint program in communication at University of Montréal. As an activist in queer, feminist and disability fields, she works on the articulation of differences in cinematic representations for which she develops an intersectional approach.