Pain, Porn and Complicity: Women Heroes from Pygmalion to Twilight by Kathleen McConnell

Pain, Porn and Complicity: Women Heroes from Pygmalion to Twilight

Kathleen McConnell

196 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

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This book is ideal for readers who enjoy sharp, thought-provoking cultural critiques that blend humor and scholarly research to explore how female characters in popular media reflect and influence societal norms.

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Why does Bella lie so much in the Twilight series? Why was Catwoman such a bad movie? What was the reason Dark Angel was so short-lived? Poet and scholar Kathleen McConnell tackles these, and other, subjects in this collection of essays. Drawing o...

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