Meanwhile, one of the year’s most-discussed television series was also about women and power, albeit in a far less celebratory mode. And now Game of Thrones, which is equally interested in women and power, has finally premiered its seventh series to its tenterhooked fans. Each of the women in Game of Thrones might be said to embody a certain archetypal female experience in relation to power. With a signal, she has her guards put a sword to his throat before correcting him: “Power is power.” Game of Thrones is not a story about dragons. Feminists don’t share the same answers to complicated questions about women, power, patriarchy, matriarchy, sex and desire.

Source: The Guardian July 22, 2017 07:52 UTC