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Girl Heroes: the New Force in Popular Culture

By (author) Susan Hopkins

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Thirty years after The Female Eunuch decried the meek, passive social norms of girlhood, we seem to be awash with amazons. Girl Heroes reviews this emerging girl revolution in contemporary popular culture, by taking an honest and insightful look at the lure of today's powerful 'chick' celebrity - including the warrior-babe Xena , 'girl-powered' Spice Girls , future-vixen Lara Croft and supernatural girl Buffy the Vampire Slayer . Hopkins offers an original, provocative and occasionally sacrilegious review of mass mediated 'Girl Power'. She surveys a new breed of pop heroine arguing that girls are no longer prepared to accept weak and dependent role models. Accordingly, established middle-aged feminism needs to rethink its approaches to girl culture. Young women today are embracing the privileges of masculinity and femininity, reclaiming the title of 'girl' as a source of pride and power.

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