Action Chicks
New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture
Inness, Sherrie A. (EDT)
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
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.
AUTHOR BIO
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.
BOOK REVIEWS
"Action Chicks is insightful, provocative, and fun to read. From action figures to video games, this book explains who the chicks are and what they mean. Trenchant and compelling analysis."--Robin Roberts, Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies, Louisiana State University author of Sexual Generations: Star Trek:The Next Generation and Ladies First: Women in Music Videos
"Lara Croft and Barb Wire: Role models or boy toys? Xena and Buffy: Why did they have to die? Action chicks are here--in movies and TV, in comics and video games--in our lives, and they're not going away, nor do we want them to go away. Aside from the obvious-- that if La Femme Nikita can be buffed and beautiful, kick butt and wear fabulous clothes, so can we--what message do these women have for us? In ten mind-opening chapters, Action Chicks, takes on the positive and the negative of tough babes from comic books to the World Wrestling Federation, and gave this Xena fan enough meaty subject matter to chew on that I didn't feel hungry after reading the book."--Trina Robbins, author of From Girls to Grrrlz and The Great Women Cartoonists
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1403963967
ISBN(13-digit): 9781403963963
Copyright: 2004
Dewey Decimal: 791.45/652042/0973
Library of Congress: 2003050906
Book Publisher: St Martins Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 293
Paper Weight (lb): 0.75
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