The last happy marriage: a peculiar representation of women in soap operas

• Autor: Yaranga Hernández, Mayra Rosario
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2013
• Institución: Universidad Femenina del Sagrado Corazón
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad Femenina del Sagrado Corazón
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.revistas.unife.edu.pe:article/970
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.unife.edu.pe/index.php/consensus/article/view/970
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Stereotypes, media, identity, Latinamerican soap operas; Estereotipos, medios, identidad, telenovelas Latinoamericanas

In the last few years, despite major breakthroughs in the access to information and education,the representation of women in the media seems to have remained in a stereotyped image ofold. A particular example of this appears in telenovelas, which constitute a crucial element in theformation of women’s identity, but tend to suggest images ranging in an easily identifiable “good/evil” binomial, without regard for a person’s complex nuances. However, there are examplesshowing an attempt to move beyond such frames. One of them is the Colombian telenovelaEl último matrimonio feliz (The last happy marriage), starting from a social fact (the increasingnumber of failing marriages) to portray, in a more realistic way, women who have to overcomesuch a situation.