new images of aggressive women
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Lavin, Maud
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- VS 8 2010 - B
- Thesaurus
- geweld, vrouwbeelden, etniciteit, media, internet
- Description
- In the past aggressive women have been told to turn the other cheek and 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 this bookthe author examines these new images of aggressive women and how they affect women's lives. Aggression, says Lavin, is necessary, psychological and physical. 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: Helen Mirren as Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect: the homicidal women in Kill Bill and artist Marlene McCarty's mural-sized Murder Girls: the erotica of Zane and the art of Kara Walker and YouTube videos of a woman boxer training and fighting. Women need aggression and need to use it consciously, Lavin writes.