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DANGEROUS
:lim\jAction Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture
JEFFREY A. BROWN
University Press of Mississippi Jackson
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Designed by Peter D. Halverson
The University Press of Mississippi is a member of the Association of
American University Presses.
Earlier versions of selected chapters appeared in the following publications and
are reprinted here with permission: Chapter 1: “Gender and the Action Hero-
ine: Hardbodies and the Point of No Return,” Cinema Journal 35, no. 3 (1996);
Chapter 2: “Gender, Sexuality, and the Bad Girls of Action” in Action Chicks:
Tough Girls in Contemporary Popular Culture, Sherrie Inness editor, University of
Pennsylvania Press (2004); Chapter 5: “If Looks Could Kill: Power, Revenge, and
Stripper Movies” in Reel Knockouts: Violent Women in Film, Neal King and Mar-
tha McCaughey editors, University of Texas Press, (2001).
Copyright © 2011 by University Press of Mississippi
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
First printing 2011
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Brown, Jeffrey A., 1966–
Dangerous curves : action heroines, gender, fetishism, and popular culture /
Jeffrey A. Brown.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-60473-714-1 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-60473-715-8 (ebook)
1. Women heroes in motion pictures. 2. Heroines in literature. 3. Comic books,
strips, etc.—History and criticism. 4. Women in popular culture. I. Title.
2011
—dc22 2010029696
British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available
FOR 8 NASTASIA
CONTENTS
Introduction
“WHERE ALL WOMEN WEAR SPANDEX AND KNOW KUNG FU”
3
1 GENDER AND THE ACTION HEROINE
Hardbodies and the Point of No Return
20
2 GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND TOUGHNESS
The Bad Girls of Action Film ic Books
43
3 ALIAS, FETISHISM, AND PYGMALION FANTASIES
63
4 “PLAY WITH ME”
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