Babes in boots: Hollywood's oxymoronic warrior woman

Chick Flicks: Contemporary Women at the Movies

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 205-220

  Waites, Kate ^a  

^a NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203935552     Document Type: Chapter

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