Dangerous curves [electronic resource] : action heroines, gender, fetishism, and popular culture / Jeffrey A. Brown.

Introduction : "where all women wear spandex and know Kung Fu"
Gender and the action heroine : hardbodies and the point of no return
Gender, sexuality, and toughness : the bad girls of action film and comic books
Alias, fetishism, and Pygmalion fantasies
"Play with me" : sexy cyborgs, game girls, and digital babes
If looks could kill : power, revenge, and stripper movies
"She can do anything!" : the action heroine and the modern (post-feminist) girl
"Exotic beauties" : ethnicity and comic book superheroines