Action Chicks New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture

Name: Action Chicks New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture
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ISBN: 9781403963963

ISBN-10: 1403963967

ISBN-13: 9781403963963

Edition: 2004 (Revised)

Authors: Sherrie A. Inness

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Xena, Buffy, Lara Croft. WWF, The Sopranos, Witchblade, La Femme Nikita. The women of pop culture are center stage and as tough as ever. Action Chicks is a groundbreaking collection high-lighting the heroines we've grown to worship-and their impact on society. What can they tell us about women in 2003? How does popular culture depict women? Do the characters escape traditional gender role expectations? Or do they adhere to sexual, racial, ethnic, and class stereotypes? The essays in Action Chicks provide fans with a new look at their favorite icons and their relationship to the popular media machine.

Book details

List price: $54.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 7/30/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 293
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.73" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: "Boxing Gloves and Bustiers": New Images of Tough Women




Changing Images of the Female Action Hero



Lara's Lethal and Loaded Mission: Transposing Reproduction and Destruction




Gender, Sexuality, and Toughness: The Bad Girls of Action Film and Comic Books




"It's a Girl Thing": Tough Female Action Figures in the Toy Store




Embodying an Image: Gender, Race, and Sexuality in La Femme Nikita




Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Defiant Women, Decadent Men, Objects of Power, and Witchblade




The Cruelest Season: Female Heroes Snapped into Sacrificial Heroines




New Images of Toughness



No Cage Can Hold Her Rage? Gender, Transgression, and the World Wrestling Federation's Chyna




Tough Love: Mamas, Molls, and Mob Wives




"Tough Enough": Female Friendship and Heroism in Xena and Buffy




Little Miss Tough Chick of the Universe: Farscape's Inverted Sexual Dynamics



Notes on Contributors


Index