Action Chicks

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.

• 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

'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