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In: Feminist cultural studies, the media, and political culture
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 series, advertisements, and comic books of recent decades. In Tough Girls, Sherrie A. Inness explores the changing representations of women in all forms of popular media and what those representations suggest about shifting social mores. She begins her examination of tough women in American popular culture with three popular television shows of the 1960s and '70s--The Avengers, Charlie's Angels, and The Bionic Woman--and continues through such contemporary pieces as a recent ad for Calvin Klein jeans and current television series such as The X-files and Xena: Warrior Princess. Although all these portrayals show women who can take care of themselves in ways that have historically been seen as uniquely male, they also variously undercut women's toughness. She argues that even some of the strongest depictions of women have perpetuated women's subordinate status, using toughness in complicated ways to break or bend gender stereotypes while simultaneously affirming them. Also of interest-- Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women: The Female Trickster in American Culture Lori Landay
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Making a Girl into a Scout -- 2. Rate Your Date -- 3. Truculent and Tractable -- 4. Female Juvenile Delinquency and the Problem of Sexual Authority in America, 1945-1965 -- 5. Little Girls Bound -- 6. "Teena Means Business" -- 7. "Anti-Barbies" -- 8. Boys-R-Us -- 9. The Flapper and the Chaperone -- 10. Fictions of Assimilation -- 11. "No Place for a Girl Dick" -- 12. Can Anne Shirley Help "Revive Ophelia"? -- 13. Producing Girls -- Contributors -- Index
In: Women's studies: an interdisciplinary journal, Volume 26, Issue 3-4, p. 343-372
ISSN: 1547-7045
In: Women's studies: an interdisciplinary journal, Volume 26, Issue 3-4, p. 343-372
ISSN: 0049-7878
In: NWSA journal: a publication of the National Women's Studies Association, Volume 8, Issue 3, p. 144-153
ISSN: 1527-1889
In: The journal of popular culture: the official publication of the Popular Culture Association, Volume 30, Issue 2, p. 47-60
ISSN: 1540-5931
In: The journal of popular culture: the official publication of the Popular Culture Association, Volume 29, Issue 3, p. 169-182
ISSN: 1540-5931
In: Women's studies: an interdisciplinary journal, Volume 23, Issue 4, p. 365-384
ISSN: 1547-7045
In: Women's studies: an interdisciplinary journal, Volume 23, Issue 4, p. 365-384
ISSN: 0049-7878