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Beyond Bombshells analyzes the cultural need for strong ladies in a number of current media varieties. Action heroines are actually more popular in videos, comic books, tv, and books than they have have you ever been. Their spectacular existence represents moving ideas about feminine agency, electricity, and sexuality. Beyond Bombshells explores how action heroines reveal and reconfigure perceptions about how exactly and why women can handle physically dominating assignments in modern fiction, indicating the many strategies used to contain and/or exploit feminine violence. Focusing on a variety of successful and controversial recent heroines in the media, including Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games literature and videos, Lisbeth Salander from The Lady with the Dragon Tattoo book and film, and Hit-Girl from the Kick-Ass videos and comic literature, Dark brown argues that the role of action heroine shows evolving values about femininity. While ladies in action roles remain intensely sexualized and objectified, in addition they challenge preconceived misconceptions about normal or culturally appropriate gender action. The ascribed sexuality of modern heroines remains Brown's steady theme, particularly how objectification intersects with issues of racial stereotyping, affectionate fantasies, images of violent adolescent and preadolescent females, and neoliberal feminist groundbreaking parables. Specific chapters review the gendered dynamics of torture doing his thing movies, the role of ladies in partnerships with male fellow workers, young women as well as groundbreaking leaders in dystopian societies, adolescent sexuality and romance doing his thing narratives, the historical transfer of nonwhite heroines, and exactly how modern BLACK, Asian, and Latina heroines both task and are restricted by longstanding racial stereotypes. The e book is posted by School Press of Mississippi.

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Publisher	University Press Audiobooks
Language	English
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DATE	2016-05
Author	Jeffrey A. Brown

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