Sexuality and The CityThe film Sex and The City represents women's personal freedom in sexuality, featuring four successful women living in New York City struggling with love, marriage and sex. The film, based on the TV show Sex and The City, follows the lives of 4 women who express their womanhood and their freedom through marriage, family and sexual exploitation. Many of them hold different ideologies about love, each with their own pieces of feminism and independence. The sexuality within Sex and The City demonstrates how people should have confidence and power through their sexuality and freedom. Sex and the City revolves around “white, middle class, heterosexual women who define themselves primarily as oppressed victims of the patriarchy” (Brasfield 253), based on this statement it is obvious to observe the oxymoronic styles presented in the film. Women are trying to achieve a level of freedom that they already have, they feel that they cannot be truly free and independent as women until they are involved in a relationship with a man. Brasfield covers a variety of topics regarding Sex and the City and its feminist characters and characteristics. Brasfield also states that in Sex and the City they use sex "as a commodity that can be bought and sold" (Brasfield 256), which is familiar to Samantha's character as she "detests relationships with an emotional component" (Brasfield 252), and would prefer they only include sex. Samantha shows this side of her in the film when she seems very interested in her neighbor, rather than her boyfriend of 5 years. When Smith gives her the ring she couldn't wait to have, she wants to return the gift to him in "oral form", when Smith denies... middle of paper... forms of freedom, all of them women of successful and strong-willed business. The presentation of this freedom allows one to believe that one can be strong within a relationship, as well as strong without a relationship. This shows that another woman in battle has gained control. Works Cited Brasfield, Rebecca. “Rereading: Sex And The City: Exposing the Hegemonic Feminist Narrative.” Multicultural Film: A Spring/Summer 2014 Anthology. Boston: Pearson Learning Solutions, 2014. 251-61. Print.Schrock, Douglas and Michael Schwalbe. "Men, masculinity and acts of virility". Multicultural Film: A Spring/Summer 2014 Anthology. Boston: Pearson Learning Solutions, 2014. 153-72. Print.Sex and the City. Director Michael Patrick King. prod. Sarah Jessica Parker. Perf. Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon. New Line Cinema Corporation, 2008. Film.