Little miss tough chick of the universe: Farscape’s inverted sexual dynamics

Action Chicks: New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 257-281

  Christopher, Renny ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHANNEL ISLANDS   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1057/9781403981240     Document Type: Chapter

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