Athena's Daughters - Television's New Women Warriors

A critical inquiry into the new woman warrior's appropriation of violence and the Western war narrative. It delves into the meaning of that appropriation for alternative storytelling, and provides a forum to recognize women's increasing role in popular culture as they are cast as action heroes.

About the author

Frances Early is professor of history at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is also author of A World Without War: How U.S. Feminists and Pacifists Resisted World War I which earned her the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations l999 Warren Kuehl Award in International and Peace History.

Kathleen Kennedy is associate professor of history at Western Washington University in Bellingham. She is the author of Disloyal Mothers, Scurrilous Citizens: Gender and Subversion During World War I.

Summary

A critical inquiry into the new woman warrior's appropriation of violence and the Western war narrative. It delves into the meaning of that appropriation for alternative storytelling, and provides a forum to recognize women's increasing role in popular culture as they are cast as action heroes.

Product details

• Assisted by: Frances Early (Editor), Kathleen Kennedy (Editor)
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2003
• EAN: 9780815629894
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-2989-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 324 g
• Series: The Television Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories