Action Chicks: New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture

by Sherrie A. Inness

Boxing Gloves and Bustiers': New Images of Tough Women; S.A.Inness Lara's Lethal and Loaded Transposing Reproduction and Destruction; C.Herbst Gender, Sexuality, and The Bad Girls of Action Film and Comic Books; J.A.Brown 'It's a Girl Thing': Tough Female Action Figures in the Toy Store; S.A.Inness Embodying an Gender, Race, and Sexuality in La Femme Nikita ; C.Tung Throwing Down the Defiant Women, Decadent Men, Objects of Power, and Witchblade; D.Greven The Cruelest Female Heroes Snapped into Sacrificial Heroines; S.Crosby Can No Cage Hold Her Rage? Gender, Transgression, and the World Wrestling Federation's; C.D.Heinecken Tough Mamas, Molls, and Mob Wives; M.Yaquinto 'Tough Enough': Female Friendship and Heroism in Xena and Buffy ; S.Ross Little Miss Tough Chick of the Farscape 's Inverted Sexual Dynamics; R.Christopher

304 pages, Paperback

Published January 23, 2016