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Heather Hundley. Dangerous Dames
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION: PARADOXES OF GENDERED POWER RELATIONS AND REPRESENTATIONS
Why Study Representation?
Our Approaches
Who We Are
Why We Write
Preview of Chapters
Notes
References
· 1 · SUPERFICIAL POSTFEMINIST AND POSTMODERN PORTRAYALS: HEGEMONIC AND HYPERMASCULINE IDEOLOGIES IN KILL BILL, VOLUMES 1 & 2
Superficial Postfeminist Ideals
The Façade of Postmodern Imagery, Excess and Spectacle
Modern Patriarchal Ideologies
Repackaging Patriarchal Ideologies
Notes
References
· 2 · APPROPRIATING FEMINISMS: THE NATURALIZATION OF PATRIARCHAL POWER STRUCTURES IN THE HUNGER GAMES
The Hunger Games and Its (Post)Feminist Presence
Katniss as a (Post)feminist Hero
Katniss and the Natural World
Metamorphosis into a Mockingjay Rising
Connections with Fire
Uncivilized and Untrainable
The Demonization of Hypercivilization
Exerting Control through Militant Technology
Visual Imagery and Excess
The Naturalization of Power Structures
Reaffirming Traditional Gender Roles
Espousing Heteronormativity
Promoting Biological Determinism
The Patriarchal Appropriation of Feminism
Notes
References
· 3 · ASS-KICKING WOMEN AND THE FIGHT FOR JUSTICE
Constructing a Historical (White) Feminine/ist Icon
Wonder Woman and Feminism on the Big Screen
Resisting the Male Gaze
Crossing No Man’s Land and Becoming a Female-Bodied Justice Hero
Reproducing Republican Motherhood
Performing Heteronormativity
Saving Women and Children
Tales of Empowerment
Notes
References
· 4 · VISUALIZING VIOLENT FEMININITY: RACE, SEX AND FEMMES FATALES IN ATOMIC BLONDE AND PROUD MARY
Dangerous Dames in Atomic Blonde and Proud Mary
Gender Performativity and Femmes Fatales
Framing Women Action Heroes
Fetishizing the Female Body
Sexual Excess in Atomic Blonde
Controlling Images of Black Womanhood in Proud Mary
Violent Femmes and Gender Transgressions
Notes
References
· 5 · HYBRIDIZING AND NETWORKING BEYOND BINARIES: CYBORGS AND COGNISPHERES IN THE BIONIC WOMAN AND DARK MATTER
Becoming More Than Human
Cyborgs and Cognispheres
Philosophical Posthumanism
Challenging Binaries
The Bionic Woman
Rebooting the Bionic Woman
Feminine Bionic Bodies Divided from Masculine Minds
Bionic Speed, Strength, Senses, and Recuperation
Don’t Think, Just Do
Humans, Not Machines
Dark Matter
Matters in the Dark
Mind and Body Separated, Blended, Expanded, and Transcended
Human and Machine Integrated, Blurred, and Entangled
Hybridizing and Networking Beyond Binaries
Notes
References
· 6 · TRANSCENDING BOUNDARIES: POSTHUMANISM AND TRANSHUMANISM IN CAPRICA AND DEUS EX
Creating Cyborgs in Caprica
Preceding Battlestar Galactica
Merging Mind, Body, and Cognisphere Connections
Self as Other, Us as Them
Human, Machine, HumanMachine
Playing Cyborgs in Deus Ex
Contextualizing Deus Ex
Multiplying Cyborgs in Deus Ex
Transcending the Body; Sanctifying the Mind
Not Quite So Us Versus Them
Balancing Human and Machine
Postfeminism in Posthumanity
Notes
References
CONCLUSION: ENVISIONING FEMINIST FUTURES
Overlapping Themes: Possibilities and Constraints
Gendered Scripts
Sexuality
The Multicultural, Depolitical Rainbow
Embodiment
Resisting the Commodification of Feminisms
Redefining and Rethinking “Women’s Power”
To the Future…and Beyond
Notes
References
INDEX
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