The Sexual Scripts of Single Career Women in Quebec Television Series. Case Studies of Tout sur moi, Les hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin and C.A

As a part of a larger research project on single women, an analysis was conducted of three television series of Quebec origin whose protagonists were single career women in their thirties (i.e. Tout sur moi, Les hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin and C.A.). With sexual agency, sexual script theory (Gagnon and Simon 1973) and Bozon's (2001) intimate orientations as a theoretical framework, representations of the women's sexual lives were identified. The female characters adopted a wide variety of female sexual scripts in addition to some typically masculine scripts. Notably, they often initiated encounters and sexual contact. Two of the female characters showed signs of an 'individual desire' intimate orientation, while the remaining character's orientation fit the 'sexual network' type. Each nevertheless maintained aspects of a 'conjugal sexuality' intimate orientation. While these television series present their female protagonist with multiple partners, they do so without confining them to the role of 'easy woman' or other stereotypes. These series suggest that representations of the sexuality of single Quebec women are changing. Adapted from the source document.