Athena's daughters
Subtitle: television's new women warriors
By: edited by Frances Early and Kathleen Kennedy ; with a foreword by Rhonda V. Wilcox.
Contributors: Early, Frances H.; Kennedy, Kathleen.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The television series
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Syracuse, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: Women heroes on television; Adventure television programs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-166) and index.
Table of contents: title: Xena, Warrior Princess; title: The baby, the mother, and the empire: Xena as ancient hero / Alison Futrell; title: Tall, dark, and dangerous: Xena, the quest, and the wielding of sexual violence in Xena on-line fan fiction / Helen Caudill; title: Love is the battlefield: the making and the unmaking of the just warrior in Xena, Warrior Princess / Kathleen Kennedy; title: Buffy the Vampire Slayer; title: The female just warrior reimagined: from Boudicca to Buffy / Frances Early; title: "If you're not enjoying it, you're doing something wrong": textual and viewer constructions of Faith, the Vampire Slayer / Sue Tjardes; title: "Action, chicks, everything": on-line interviews with male fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Lee Parpart; title: Buffy? she's like me, she's not like; title: she's Rad / Vivian Chin; title: La femme Nikita; title: "The most powerful weapon you have": warriors and gender in La femme Nikita / Laura Ng; title: Star trek: Voyager; title: We who are Borg, are we Borg? / Edrie Sobstyl.