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Action Chicks:

New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture
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Sherrie A. Inness
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Palgrave Macmillan, Feb 1, 2004 - Performing Arts - 293 pages
Xena, Buffy, Lara Croft, La Femme Nikita. The women of pop culture are center stage and tougher than ever. Action Chicks is a groundbreaking collection highlighting the heroines who fascinate us. What can they tell us about how popular culture depicts 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 a new look at these icons and their relationship to the popular media machine. This is a thought-provoking anthology that is bound to change how we think about gender and toughness.

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In the media there seems to be this perplexing idea that the only way to be a feminist female character is to be a tomboy. Any from of “girlyness” is seem as a weakness. On the website TV Tropes they ... Read full review

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Poses quite a few questions and has a lot of valid points and theories! Pleasure studying this book :) Read full review

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About the author (2004)

Sherrie A. Inness is Professor of English at Miami University. She is the author/editor of several books including Disco Divas: Women, Gender, and Popular Culture in the 1970s, Cooking Lessons: The Politics of Gender and Food, and Delinquents and Debutantes: Twentieth-Century American Girls' Cultures.

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TitleAction Chicks: New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture
EditorSherrie A. Inness
Editionillustrated
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan, 2004
ISBN1403963967, 9781403963963
Length293 pages
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Performing Arts / Film & Video / History & Criticism
Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory
Social Science / Gender Studies
Social Science / Popular Culture
  
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