This book is unique in its critical inquiry into the new woman warrior's appropriation of violence and the Western war narrative. Informed by feminist theoretical debates regarding women's new roles, the authors delve into the meaning of that appropriation for alternative storytelling. To date, television's "ferocious few" have received little scholarly attention. By inviting a variety of perspectives, editors Frances Early and Kathleen Kennedy provide a cutting-edge forum to recognize women's increasing role in popular culture as they are cast as action heroes. As a timely and accessible work, this book will appeal to scholars, feminists, cultural critics, and the general reader.
With a Foreword by Rhonda V. Wilcox
Frances Early is professor of history at Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and the author of the award-winning book A World Without War: How U.S. Feminists and Pacifists Resisted World War I, also published by Syracuse University Press.
Kathleen Kennedy is associate professor of history and director of women's studies at the Western Washington University. She is author of Disloyal Mothers and Scurrilous Citizens: Women and Subversion During World War I.
Rhonda V. Wilcox is Professor of English, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA and author of "Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (I.B. Tauris, 2005). She is co-editor, with David Lavery, of "Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' "and online editor of the International Journal of Buffy Studies, "Slayage,"
Tanya Cochran is both a doctoral candidate at Georgia State University and Assistant Professor of English at Union College, Lincoln, NE. She is currently Vice Chair of "Science Fiction and Fantasy" for the American Popular Culture Association.
