Tough girls : women warriors and wonder women in popular culture /
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
c1999.
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| Series: | Feminist cultural studies, the media, and political culture
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Table of Contents:
- ch. 1. Beyond muscles: what does it mean to be tough?
- ch. 2. Semi-tough: Emma Peel, Charlie's Angels, the Bionic Woman, and other wanna-bes
- ch. 3. Pretty tough: the cult of femininity in women's magazines
- ch. 4. Lady killers: tough enough?
- ch. 5. Tough girl as one of the boys: Jodie Foster, Gillian Anderson, and the threat of masculinity
- ch. 7. Post-Apocalyptic tough girls: has the road warrior met his match?
- ch. 8. Tough girls in comic books: beyond wonder woman
- ch. 9. Tough girl for a new century: Xena, Warrior Princess.
