Table of Contents

Boxing Gloves and Bustiers': New Images of Tough Women; S.A.Inness Lara's Lethal and Loaded Mission: Transposing Reproduction and Destruction; C.Herbst Gender, Sexuality, and Toughness: 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 Image: Gender, Race, and Sexuality in La Femme Nikita ; C.Tung Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Defiant Women, Decadent Men, Objects of Power, and Witchblade; D.Greven The Cruelest Season: 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 Love: 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 Universe: Farscape 's Inverted Sexual Dynamics; R.Christopher

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SHERRIE A. INNESS is Professor of English at Miami University. She is the author/editor of several books including Disco Divas: Women, Gender, and Popular Culture in the 1970s, Cooking Lessons: The Politics of Gender and Food, and Delinquents and Debutantes: Twentieth-Century American Girls' Cultures. She lives in Fairfield, Ohio, USA.

About the Author

SHERRIE A. INNESS is Professor of English at Miami University. She is the author/editor of several books including Disco Divas: Women, Gender, and Popular Culture in the 1970s, Cooking Lessons: The Politics of Gender and Food, and Delinquents and Debutantes: Twentieth-Century American Girls' Cultures. She lives in Fairfield, Ohio, USA.

Reviews

'From action figures to video games, this book explains who the chicks are and what they mean. Trenchant and compelling analysis.' - Robin Roberts, Louisiana State University, USA