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Action chicks : new images of tough women in popular culture / edited by Sherrie A. Inness.

Inness, Sherrie A. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 1403963967 (pbk.)
Physical Description: viii, 293 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: "Boxing Gloves and Bustiers": New Images of Tough Women / Sherrie A. Inness -- 1. Lara's Lethal and Loaded Mission: Transposing Reproduction and Destruction / Claudia Herbst -- 2. Gender, Sexuality, and Toughness: The Bad Girls of Action Film and Comic Books / Jeffrey A. Brown -- 3. "It's a Girl Thing": Tough Female Action Figures in the Toy Store / Sherrie A. Inness -- 4. Embodying an Image: Gender, Race, and Sexuality in La Femme Nikita / Charlene Tung -- 5. Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Defiant Women, Decadent Men, Objects of Power, and Witchblade / David Greven -- 6. The Cruelest Season: Female Heroes Snapped into Sacrificial Heroines / Sara Crosby -- 7. No Cage Can Hold Her Rage? Gender, Transgression, and the World Wrestling Federation's Chyna / Dawn Heinecken -- 8. Tough Love: Mamas, Molls, and Mob Wives / Marilyn Yaquinto --

9. "Tough Enough": Female Friendship and Heroism in Xena and Buffy / Sharon Ross -- 10. Little Miss Tough Chick of the Universe: Farscape's Inverted Sexual Dynamics / Renny Christopher.