| Contents |
Boxing Gloves and Bustiers": New Images of Tough Women / Sherrie A. Inness -- Lara's Lethal and Loaded Mission: Transposing Reproduction and Destruction / Claudia Herbst -- Gender, Sexuality, and Toughness: The Bad Girls of Action Film and Comic Books / Jeffrey A. Brown -- "It's a Girl Thing": Tough Female Action Figures in the Toy Store / Sherrie A. Inness -- Embodying an Image: Gender, Race, and Sexuality in La Femme Nikita / Charlene Tung -- Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Defiant Women, Decadent Men, Objects of Power, and Witchblade / David Greven -- The Cruelest Season: Female Heroes Snapped into Sacrificial Heroines / Sara Crosby -- Can No Cage Hold Her Rage? Gender, Transgression, and the World Wrestling Federation's Chyna / Dawn Heinecken -- Tough Love: Mamas, Molls, and Mob Wives / Marilyn Yaquinto -- "Tough Enough": Female Friendship and Heroism in Xena and Buffy / Sharon Ross -- Little Miss Tough Chick of the Universe: Farscape's Inverted Sexual Dynamics / Renny Christopher. |
