Action Chicks
Palgrave Macmillan US
Table of Contents
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Book Overview
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Chapter 1
Introduction
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Chapter 2
Lara’s Lethal and Loaded Mission: Transposing Reproduction and Destruction
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Chapter 3
Gender, Sexuality, and Toughness: The Bad Girls of Action Film and Comic Books
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Chapter 4
“It’s a Girl Thing”: Tough Female Action Figures in the Toy Store
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Chapter 5
Embodying an Image: Gender, Race, and Sexuality in La Femme Nikita
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Chapter 6
Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Defiant Women, Decadent Men, Objects of Power, and Witchblade
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Chapter 7
The Cruelest Season: Female Heroes Snapped into Sacrificial Heroines
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Chapter 8
No Cage Can Hold Her Rage? Gender, Transgression, and the World Wrestling Federation’s Chyna
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Chapter 9
Tough Love: Mamas, Molls, and Mob Wives
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Chapter 10
“Tough Enough”: Female Friendship and Heroism in Xena and Buffy
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Chapter 11
Little Miss Tough Chick of the Universe: Farscape’s Inverted Sexual Dynamics
Attention for Chapter 6:
Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Defiant Women, Decadent Men, Objects of Power, and Witchblade