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Author Lavin, Maud.

Title Push comes to shove : new images of aggressive women / Maud Lavin
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (x, 300 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Sibling play: women, sports, and movies -- Aging and aggression -- Violence: Kill Bill and Murder girls -- Unbuttoning sexuality: Zane and Kara Walker -- More siblings: aggression within art and activist groups
Summary In the past, more often than not, aggressive women have been rebuked, told to keep a lid on, turn the other cheek, get over it. Repression more than aggression was seen as woman's domain. But recently there's been a noticeable cultural shift. With growing frequency, women's aggression is now celebrated in contemporary culture--in movies and TV, online ventures, and art. In Push Comes to Shove, Maud Lavin examines these new images of aggressive women and how they affect women's lives. Aggression, says Lavin, need not entail causing harm to another; we can think of it as the use of force to create change--fruitful, destructive, or both. And over the past twenty years, contemporary culture has shown women seizing this power. Lavin chooses provocative examples to explore the complexity of aggression, including the surfer girls in Blue Crush, Helen Mirren as Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect, the homicidal women in Kill Bill, and artist Marlene McCarty's mural-sized Murder Girls. Women need aggression and need to use it consciously, Lavin writes. With Push Comes to Shove, she explores the questions of how to manifest aggression, how to represent it, and how to keep open a cultural space for it. --From publisher's description
Analysis ARTS/General
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Women in art.
Women in popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Women in popular culture -- United States -- History -- 21st century
Aggressiveness in art.
Aggressiveness in popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Aggressiveness in popular culture -- United States -- History -- 21st century
Arts, American -- 20th century.
Arts, American -- 21st century.
Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 21st century
ART -- Subjects & Themes -- Human Figure.
ART -- Subjects & Themes -- Portraits.
Aggressiveness in art
Aggressiveness in popular culture
Arts, American
Popular culture
Women in art
Women in popular culture
Massenkultur
Frau
Aggressivität
Erotik
Kvinnobilden -- konst -- film.
Populärkultur -- Förenta staterna -- 2000-talet.
Aggressivitet.
Kvinnor i konsten.
Kvinnor i filmen.
Populärkultur -- kvinnor -- historia -- Förenta staterna -- 1900-talet.
Populärkultur -- kvinnor -- historia -- Förenta staterna -- 2000-talet.
Aggression -- i konsten -- kvinnor -- Förenta staterna.
Aggression -- i filmen -- kvinnor -- Förenta staterna.
Kvinnor på film, USA.
Kvinnor och populärkultur, USA.
Könsroller.
United States
USA
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0262289555
9780262289559
1282899244
9781282899247
9786612899249
6612899247
9780262291514
0262291517