Dangerous curves : action heroines, gender, fetishism, and popular culture / Jeffrey A. Brown.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brown, Jeffrey A., 1966-
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2011.
Subjects:
Physical Description:viii, 269 pages
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Introduction : "where all women wear spandex and know Kung Fu" -- Gender and the action heroine : hardbodies and the point of no return -- Gender, sexuality, and toughness : the bad girls of action film and comic books -- Alias, fetishism, and Pygmalion fantasies -- "Play with me" : sexy cyborgs, game girls, and digital babes -- If looks could kill : power, revenge, and stripper movies -- "She can do anything!" : the action heroine and the modern (post-feminist) girl -- "Exotic beauties" : ethnicity and comic book superheroines -- Kinky vampires and action heroines -- When the action heroine looks -- Conclusion. 
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