Embodying an image: Gender, race, and sexuality in La Femme Nikita

Action Chicks: New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 95-121

  Tung, Charlene ^a  

^a State University in California   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1057/9781403981240     Document Type: Chapter

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