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

Publication Info. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, [2003]
©2003

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 Moore Stacks  PN1992.8.W65 A88 2003    Available  ---
Edition 1st ed.
Description xvi, 175 pages ; 23 cm.
Series The television series
Television series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-166) and index.
Contents Foreword / Rhonda V. Wilcox -- Introduction: Athena's daughters / Frances Early, Kathleen Kennedy -- Xena, Warrior Princess -- 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 -- 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.
Subject Women heroes on television.
Women heroes on television.
Genre/Form Action and adventure television programs.
Action and adventure television programs.
Added Author Early, Frances H.
Kennedy, Kathleen, 1963-
ISBN 0815629893 paperback alkaline paper
0815629680 cloth alkaline paper