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Item specifics
- Condition
- Book Title
- Tough Girls : Women Warriors and Wonder Women in Popular Culture
- ISBN
- 9780812234664
- Subject Area
- Social Science
- Publication Name
- Tough Girls : Women Warriors and Wonder Women in Popular Culture
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Subject
- Media Studies, Popular Culture, Women's Studies
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Series
- Anniversary Collection
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Item Weight
- 23.5 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-10
0812234669
ISBN-13
9780812234664
eBay Product ID (ePID)
244058
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Publication Name
Tough Girls : Women Warriors and Wonder Women in Popular Culture
Language
English
Subject
Media Studies, Popular Culture, Women's Studies
Publication Year
1998
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science
Series
Anniversary Collection
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
98-020218
Reviews
"The author's arguments are clearly drawn, and themed chapters make her impressive research easy to navigate."-- San Jose Mercury News, "Inness discerns a broad cultural ambivalence about changing gender roles. The influence strong heroines hold in young women's lives, she argues, is not to be underestimated."-- Publishers Weekly, "Inness discerns a broad cultural ambivalence about changing gender roles. The influence strong heroines hold in young women's lives, she argues, is not to be underestimated."--Publishers Weekly "The author's arguments are clearly drawn, and themed chapters make her impressive research easy to navigate."--San Jose Mercury News "In Tough Girls Sherrie Innes examines the ways that popular culture helps to shape and change broader social views of women. . . . This book will appeal to anyone interested in the representation of women in the media. It will be of use to students of media, gender and sports studies; indeed, anyone interested in gender roles."--International Journal of the History of Sport "Drawing on an encyclopedic, first-hand knowledge of popular cultural texts . . . [Inness's] treatment of the subject is comprehensive and accessible."--Choice, "Drawing on an encyclopedic, first-hand knowledge of popular cultural texts . . . [Inness's] treatment of the subject is comprehensive and accessible."-- Choice, "In Tough Girls Sherrie Innes examines the ways that popular culture helps to shape and change broader social views of women. . . . This book will appeal to anyone interested in the representation of women in the media. It will be of use to students of media, gender and sports studies; indeed, anyone interested in gender roles."-- International Journal of the History of Sport
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Illustrated
Yes
Grade To
College Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal
302.23/082
Synopsis
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, Blending cultural studies, gender studies, and film studies, Inness gives new insight into the kinds of female characters offered to women as role models.
LC Classification Number
P94.5.W65I56 1998
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