Gender, sexuality, and toughness: The bad girls of action film and comic books

Action Chicks: New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 47-74

  Brown, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84928197168     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1057/9781403981240     Document Type: Chapter

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