Bad Girls : Cultural Politics and Media Representations of Transgressive Women
by Owen, A. SusanFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-05-30
Publisher(s): Peter Lang Pub Inc
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A. Susan Owen is Professor in the Communication Studies Department at the University of Puget Sound.
Table of Contents
| Foreword : the politics of representation | |
| Introduction : why we write | p. 1 |
| Hijacking feminism in post-Vietnam cinema : tough women and tangled memories | p. 21 |
| Hacking women : the politics of disconnect | p. 63 |
| Leaving the mothership : postmodernity and postfeminism in Ally McBeal and Sex and the city | p. 91 |
| Designing women as consumers ... again : gender and the myth of the level playing field in the information age | p. 135 |
| Oh, to be given a sporting chance... : televisual representations of women in the world of sports news | p. 167 |
| It's a dick thing : ambivalent coding of American female soldiers in Gulf War narratives | p. 197 |
| Epilogue : an open letter from the second wave mothership | p. 231 |
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