Sex and the City (book) version of herself, Carrie Bradshaw. Bushnell's prequel pair of novels, "The Carrie Diaries" (2010) and "Summer and the City" (2011), were adapted into a 2013-2014 TV series on The CW network. Sex and the City (book) Sex and the City is a collection of essays by Candace Bushnell based on her and her friends' lifestyles. It was first published in 1997, and re-published in 2001, 2006, and in 2008 as a 10th anniversary movie tie-in edition. The book is an anthology of columns that Bushnell began writing in 1994 for "The New York Observer". The book was loosely adapted into
Sex and the City against criticism of "Sex and the City" as anti-feminist, arguing for a more complex view of the characters as situated within different waves of feminism: "Miranda and Carrie were second-wave feminists, who believed in egalitarianism; Charlotte and Samantha were third-wave feminists, focused on exploiting the power of femininity, from opposing angles." A 2018 article in The Guardian entitled "'That show was as white as it gets!': Sex and the City's problematic legacy", pointed to the lack of any non-white series regulars and "racial insensitivities" in the show like Carrie's "ghetto gold" reference or Samantha's wearing an afro wig to cover