The cruelest season: Female heroes snapped into sacrificial heroines

Action Chicks: New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 153-178

  Crosby, Sara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1057/9781403981240     Document Type: Chapter

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