Athena's daughters : television's new women warriors

Athena's daughters : television's new women warriors / edited by Frances Early and Kathleen Kennedy ; with a foreword by Rhonda V. Wilcox.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Early, Frances H., Kennedy, Kathleen, Wilcox, Rhonda
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, c2003.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Television series
Subjects:
Women heroes on television.
Adventure television programs.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Rhonda V. Wilcox
  • Introduction: Athena's daughters / Frances Early, Kathleen Kennedy
  • Xena, Warrior Princess
  • The baby, the mother, and the empire : Xena as ancient hero / Alison Futrell
  • Tall, dark, and dangerous: Xena, the quest, and the wielding of sexual violence in Xena on-line fan fiction / Helen Caudill
  • Love is the battlefield: the making and the unmaking of the just warrior in Xena, Warrior Princess / Kathleen Kennedy
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  • The female just warrior reimagined : from Boudicca to Buffy / Frances Early
  • "If you're not enjoying it, you're doing something wrong": textual and viewer constructions of Faith, the Vampire Slayer / Sue Tjardes
  • "Action, chicks, everything": on-line interviews with male fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Lee Parpart
  • Buffy? she's like me, she's not like me- she's Rad / Vivian Chin
  • La femme Nikita
  • "The most powerful weapon you have": warriors and gender in La femme Nikita / Laura Ng
  • Star trek: Voyager
  • We who are Borg, are we Borg? / Edrie Sobstyl.

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