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Action chicks : new images of tough women in popular culture
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- Creator
- edited by Sherrie A. Inness
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
- Physical Details
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- viii, 293 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781403964038, 1403964033, 9781403963963, 1403963967
- OCLC
- ocm52239630
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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