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Has does 'The Sopranos' by David Chase (1999-2007) subvert stereotypical representations of women in the gangster genre?

The widely acclaimed “greatest pop-culture masterpiece of its day” [1], The Sopranos originated by David Chase (1999-2007) is a gangster genre series which was aired by HBO. The gangster genre is renowned for its male dominated casts to whom storylines are fixated upon. Female characters have been “underrepresented...in fictional life” [2] throughout the history of this genre, they have undertaken passive character roles and been depicted as fetishized objects of the male gaze by the predominantly male directors’and wiriters'. In order to determine whether The Sopranos by David Chase (1999-2007) reinforces the stereotypical representation of women in the contemporary gangster genre it is essential to compare historical texts with The Sopranos.

Vanity Fair [1]
Gaye Tuchman [2]