Action Chicks
New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture
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- 304 pages
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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 highlighting the heroines we've grown to worship. What can they tell us about women in the Twent-first-century? 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 fans with a new look at their favourite icons and their relationship to the popular media machine. A fascinating collection that's bound to stir up some excitement.
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Action Chicks, Sherrie A. Inness
- Language
- Released
- 2004
- Binding
- (Paperback),
- Book condition
- Damaged
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- €6.09
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- Title
- Action Chicks
- Subtitle
- New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Sherrie A. Inness
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Released
- 2004
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 304
- ISBN10
- 1403963967
- ISBN13
- 9781403963963
- Series
- Categories
- Tags
- Art, Compilations, Anthologies, Women, USA, Filmthema, Culture and Society, Feminism, Local History, Media and Media Communication, Television, Popular Culture, Gender, Performing Arts, Mass Media, Mass Communication
- Description
- 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 highlighting the heroines we've grown to worship. What can they tell us about women in the Twent-first-century? 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 fans with a new look at their favourite icons and their relationship to the popular media machine. A fascinating collection that's bound to stir up some excitement.