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Heroic Girls as Figures of Resistance and Futurity in Popular Culture

Heroic Girls as Figures of Resistance and Futurity in Popular Culture

Simon Bacon

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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
2025
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Estudios de género, grupos de género
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9781032054926
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Heroic Girls as Figures of Resistance and Futurity in Popular Culture looks at the recent proliferation of the ’final girl’ young heroines who have entered popular consciousness as symbolising the potential and power as one that might change the future rather than repeat the mistakes of the past, thereby becoming the ’first girl’.

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