| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
viii, 293 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Boxing Gloves and Bustiers" : New Images of Tough Women / Sherrie A. Inness -- Lara's Lethal and Loaded Mission : Transposing Reproduction and Destruction / Claudia Herbst -- Gender, Sexuality, and Toughness : The Bad Girls of Action Film and Comic Books / Jeffrey A. Brown -- "It's a Girl Thing" : Tough Female Action Figures in the Toy Store / Sherrie A. Inness -- Embodying an Image : Gender, Race, and Sexuality in La Femme Nikita / Charlene Tung -- Throwing Down the Gauntlet : Defiant Women, Decadent Men, Objects of Power, and Witchblade / David Greven -- Cruelest Season : Female Heroes Snapped into Sacrificial Heroines / Sara Crosby -- No Cage Can Hold Her Rage? Gender, Transgression, and the World Wrestling Federation's Chyna / Dawn Heinecken -- Tough Love : Mamas, Molls, and Mob Wives / Marilyn Yaquinto -- "Tough Enough" : Female Friendship and Heroism in Xena and Buffy / Sharon Ross -- Little Miss Tough Chick of the Universe : Farscape's Inverted Sexual Dynamics / Renny Christopher. |
| Subject |
Women in mass media.
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Mass media.
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Popular culture.
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| Added Author |
Inness, Sherrie A.
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| ISBN |
1403963967 (pbk.) |
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1403964033 (cloth) |
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