Since its 2013 premiere, Orange Is the New Black became Netflix's first most watched series, garnering critical praise and numerous awards and advancing the cultural phenomenon of binge-watching. The series has sparked debate: does it celebrate diversity or is it told from the perspective of white privilege, with characters embodying some of the most racist and sexist stereotypes in television history? This collection of essays is the first to analyze the show's multiple layers of meaning. Examining Orange Is the New Black from a number of feminist perspectives, the contributors cover topics such as the gender binary, race, class, sexuality, transgender rights, mass incarceration and the prison industrial complex, disability, and sexual assault.
