Allison P. Palumbo

Love and the Fighting Female

A Critical Study of Onscreen Depictions

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Produktbeschreibung

Combining cultural analysis with close readings of key popular American film and television texts since the 1980s, this study argues that certain fighting female themes question regressive conventions in male-female relationships. Those themes reveal potentially progressive ideologies regarding female agency.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland & Co Inc
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 326g
• ISBN-13: 9781476677392
• ISBN-10: 1476677395
• Artikelnr.: 60372988

Autorenporträt

Allison P. Palumbo lives in Moses Lake, Washington and teaches English and gender studies courses at Big Bend Community College. They have written previously about Henry Miller's Tropics trilogy as well as Dorothy West's The Living Is Easy, and their research and teaching address sexual politics and gender issues in 20th-century American literature and popular culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction One.
To Love, Honor and Be Oppressed: The Problem Hetero-Romance Poses for Feminism Two.
Mixing Business with Pleasure: Love-Buddy Fighting Females and the Politics of Romance in the Workplace Three.
The Struggling Romaction Genre: Love-Warrior Fighting Females and the Politics of Romance on the Homefront Four.
What Doesn't Kill Her Makes Her Stronger: The Fighting Female as a Survivor Five.
Women Leaders and the Men Who Love Them Conclusion Epilogue: Evolving Pleasures Chapter Notes Bibliography Index