Athena's daughters : television's new women warriors / edited by Frances Early and Kathleen Kennedy ; with a foreword by Rhonda V. Wilcox.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Early, Frances H.

Kennedy, Kathleen, 1963-

Series:

Television series.

The television series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women heroes on television.

Action and adventure television programs.

Physical Description:

xvi, 175 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, [2003]

Summary:

Examines the complex and controversial relationships between feminism and violence as revealed in popular TV shows featuring women warriors. This book is unique in its critical inquiry into the new woman warrior's appropriation of violence and the Western war narrative. Informed by feminist theoretical debates regarding women's new roles, the authors delve into the meaning of that appropriation for alternative storytelling. To date, television's "ferocious few" have received little scholarly attention. By inviting a variety of perspectives, editors Frances Early and Kathleen Kennedy provide a cutting-edge forum to recognize women's increasing role in popular culture as they are cast as action heroes. As a timely and accessible work, this book will appeal to scholars, feminists, cultural critics, and the general reader. Contents include:

Contents:

Part one

Xena, Warrior Princess

The baby, the mother, and the empire: Xena as ancient hero / Alison Futrell

Tall, dark, and dangerous: Xena, the quest, and the wielding of sexual violence in Xena on-line fan fiction / Helen Caudill

Love is the battlefield: the making and the unmaking of the just warrior in Xena, Warrior Princess / Kathleen Kennedy

Part two

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

The female just warrior reimagined: from Boudicca to Buffy / Frances Early

"If you're not enjoying it, you're doing something wrong": textual and viewer constructions of faith, the Vampire Slayer / Sue Tjardes

"Action, chicks, everything": on-line interviews with male fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Lee Parpart

Buffy? she's like me, she's not like

she's Rad / Vivian Chin

Part three

La femme Nikita

"The most powerful weapon you have": warriors and gender in La femme Nikita / Laura Ng

Part four

Star trek: voyager

We who are Borg, are we Borg? / Edrie Sobstyl.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-166) and index.

ISBN:

0815629680

0815629893

OCLC:

51223646