Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture

by Jeffrey A. Brown

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Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture addresses the conflicted meanings associated with the figure of the action heroine as she has evolved in various media forms since the late 1980s. Jeffrey A. Brown discusses this immensely popular character type, the action heroine, as an example of, and challenge to, existing theories about gender as a performance identity. Her assumption of heroic masculine traits combined...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:160473714X

ISBN13:9781604737141

Release Date:January 2011

Publisher:University Press of Mississippi

Length:288 Pages

Weight:1.25 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"

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Arts, Music & Photography Performing Arts Social Science Social Sciences

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