Tough Girls : : Women Warriors and Wonder Women in Popular Culture / / Sherrie A. Inness.
Tough girls are everywhere these days. Whether it is Ripley battling a swarm of monsters in the Aliens trilogy or Captain Janeway piloting the starship Voyager through space in the continuing Star Trek saga, women strong in both body and mind have become increasingly popular in the films, television...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [1999] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 1999 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Feminist Cultural Studies, the Media, and Political Culture
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 16 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Beyond Muscles: What Does It Mean to Be Tough?
- Part I. Pseudo-Tough
- 2. Semi-Tough: Emma Peel, Charlie's Angels, the Bionic Woman, and Other Wanna-Bes
- 3. Pretty Tough: The Cult of Femininity in Women's Magazin
- 4. Lady Killers: Tough Enough?
- Part II. When the Going Gets Tough
- 5. A Tough Girl as One of the Boys: Jodie Foster, Gillian Anderson, and the Threat of Masculinity
- 6. Tough Women in Outer Space: The Final Frontier
- 7. Post-Apocalyptic Tough Girls: Has the Road Warrior Met His Match?
- 8. Tough Girls in Comic Books: Beyond Wonder Woman
- 9. A Tough Girl for a New Century: Xena, Warrior Princess
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Acknowledgments
- Index