Chapter 1 Sisters in Arms, or How Collectivity Facilitates an Individual’s Agency

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Notes on Contributors ix
5. Acknowledgements xiii
6. Foreword xiv
7. Introduction 1
8. Part I Collectivity and Agency
9. Chapter 1 Sisters in Arms, or How Collectivity Facilitates an Individual’s Agency 19
10. Chapter 2 Agency and Sisterhood in the Revisionist Western: The Missing, The Keeping Room and Godless as Feminist Westerns 38
11. Chapter 3 Gangs or Vigilantes: Locating Action and the ‘Angry Young Women’ of Bollywood in Gulaab Gang 56
12. Chapter 4 The ‘Mountain Woman’ in Woman at War: An Eco-Activist Action Heroine and her Sister(s)-in-Arms 74
13. Part II Feminisms and Femininities
14. Chapter 5 ‘Once Upon a Time There Were Three Little Girls’: Violence, Glamour and Working Women in Charlie’s Angels 95
15. Chapter 6 Exploring the Second Closet: Femininity and Power in 2019’s Charlie’s Angels 115
16. Chapter 7 ‘I Know My Value’: Feminism, Femininity and Transgression in Marvel’s Agent Carter 130
17. Chapter 8 Harley Quinn: Trickster, Action Heroine and a Reluctant Team Player 149
18. Part III Resistance and Recuperation
19. Chapter 9 Friendship, Fashion and Action Comedy: Female Partnerships in US Action Cinema 167
20. Chapter 10 The Girlfriend Action Flick 184
21. Chapter 11 Armed and Dangerous: Policewomen in TV Series, a New Equality of Arms 209
22. Chapter 12 Sisters in Arms in Terminator: Dark Fate 230
23. Part IV Intersectionality and the Evolving Action Heroine
24. Chapter 13 Passing the Baton: Age, Action and Mentorship in Three Hollywood Films 249
25. Chapter 14 Be Gay, Do Crime? The Construction of Ocean’s 8 as a Lesbian Heist Film 267
26. Chapter 15 ‘Nubian Queen Rise’: The Black Queer Action Heroine, Sisterhood and the Closet in Captain Marvel and The Harder They Fall 283
27. Chapter 16 The Old Guard’s New Order: Gina Prince-Bythewood, Andy and Nile, and ‘the Opportunity to Put a Young Black Female Hero into the World’ 305
28. Index 321