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Samantha Jones, postfeminist icon

Samantha Jones, postfeminist icon

As 'Sex and the City' hits Netflix, a reconsideration of a legendary character who tried to have sex 'like a man.'

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All six seasons of Sex and the City hit Netflix this week and I just keep thinking about Samantha Jones. In the pilot episode, which first aired back in 1998, the four women are out at dinner and Samantha declares, cosmo in-hand: “You can bang your head against the wall and try and find a relationship or you can say screw it and go ou…

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