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For Reals. I'm reading Susan Douglas's latest Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message that Feminism's Work is Done (2010, Times Books), and our gal gets several shout outs in the chapter, "Warrior Women in Thongs."
The bulk of the analysis in this chapter is actually for Xena and Buffy -- but Nikita, Max and Sydney get a paragraph each (so do Lara Croft and Charlie's Angles, turn of the millennium flavor.) The argument in the chapter is that these women were at once truly kick-ass, and yet lot was done to make sure that emotionally and in everything but hand to hand combat, hyper feminine and very definitely NOT LIKE MEN.
I haven't finished the whole book yet, but so far I'm enjoying it -- if you know it, it's like the sequel to her book Where the Girls Are about media culture and feminism 1950s-1980s.
The bulk of the analysis in this chapter is actually for Xena and Buffy -- but Nikita, Max and Sydney get a paragraph each (so do Lara Croft and Charlie's Angles, turn of the millennium flavor.) The argument in the chapter is that these women were at once truly kick-ass, and yet lot was done to make sure that emotionally and in everything but hand to hand combat, hyper feminine and very definitely NOT LIKE MEN.
I haven't finished the whole book yet, but so far I'm enjoying it -- if you know it, it's like the sequel to her book Where the Girls Are about media culture and feminism 1950s-1980s.
