Introduction. Grammar of Understanding: Ways of Being, Feeling, and Seeing Women in Security Television
1. Women Are Taking the Lead! Focus on the Character of Claire Underwood in House of Cards
2. Nothing New in the East: Instrumentalization of Women in Turkish Security Series
3. Dystopia as Empowerment? The Case of Sister Night in Watchmen
4. Emotional Warfare and Global Conflict in Homeland and The Americans
5. I Am Queen Sono: A Spy Series Represents Africa
6. Desperate Housewives at War with ETA: Patria
7. Gender, Genre, and Generative AI Representation: Regressive Simulacra in The Capture
8. Navigating Contradictions: The Ambivalent Portrayal of Women in the Russian Series Sleepers
9. Gender and Geopolitics: Behind the Scenes of Deep State with Sara Johnson
10. Women as Security Workers: From the Individual to Collective Care
11. “Why Did You Have to Do This?” Beyond Controversy, An Online Reception Analysis of Audience’s Comments on the Last Season of Killing Eve
Index
Biography
Alexandre Diallo is a researcher and lecturer whose work focuses on race and gender representation in popular culture, toxic masculinities, and the reception of TV series and films. He has published on these themes about visual media and online audience responses. He has held academic positions at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Sciences Po Paris, Université Paris of 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, and Paris Sciences et Lettres.
Sandra Laugier is a French philosopher who works on ordinary language philosophy, moral philosophy, democracy, and popular culture. She is the translator of Stanley Cavell's work in French. Among recent books are TV-Philosophy: How TV Series Change Our Thinking, (2023), TV-Philosophy: The Ethics and Politics of TV (2023), and Wittgenstein: The Senses of Use (2025). She is a professor of philosophy at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France.
