“Tough enough”: Female friendship and heroism in xena and buffy

Action Chicks: New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 231-255

  Ross, Sharon ^a  

^a Chair Emeritus in the Business and Entrepreneurship Department at Columbia College Chicago   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1057/9781403981240     Document Type: Chapter

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