I think you have to throw out Wonder Woman…I doubt people are focusing on the 7os tv show.
Good point.
Yup, as I noted earlier in this thread. Wonder Woman is primarily a comic-book character, and was published in that medium for over 30 years before the Lynda Carter TV series (and, now, for nearly 50 years after the TV series ended).
What is part of the analysis for Dana Scully is also that she co-lead a cultural phenomenon of a show with a male co-lead.
And the fact that she was paid less than David Duchovny almost the entire time. Even when the show came back on for 10th season, they offered her less money than Duchovny again and she had to flat tell them she would not come back unless their salaries were identical, which they did do. But even recently, she had to press them just to treat her as an equal part of the show.
So there are feminist issues and sexism issues behind the scenes of Dana Scully as well.
There certainly are! But for whatever reason, Scully hasn’t been analyzed as often as Buffy in works available in Google Scholar. I don’t know when academic analysis of pop culture really took off, but it seems like Buffy the series occurred at a really good time to make Buffy the character a thoroughly analyzed female TV character.
Olivia Benson. Every woman I know has strong opinions about her!