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A Comparative Study of Women's Aggression

Gaswint, Kiera M
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1523032004159866

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2018, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, English/Literature.
This project explores womens aggression in superhero, science fiction, and crime film through a close reading of Wonder Woman, Ghost in the Shell, and Atomic Blonde. All based in genres that are traditionally considered for boys, these films are different from other superhero, science fiction, and crime films because they feature female leads with aggressive tendencies. Using Dana Crowley Jacks theory of womens aggression and Yvonne Tasker and Diane Negras definition of postfeminism, I argue that Diana, Major, and Lorraine revolutionize the image of the lead postfeminist character by offering examples of womens aggression that resist acceptable, palatable representations of womens aggression. Whereas in the past there have been many representations of aggressive women, those past representations have been affected by postfeminism in a way that commodifies and limits their ability to be authentically aggressive. I examine how these new films, Wonder Woman, Ghost in the Shell, and Atomic Blonde, play into and ultimately resist postfeminist representations because of their aggression and how that aggression is played out on the female body. In the following chapters I analyze how the heroines in Wonder Woman, Ghost in the Shell, and Atomic Blonde disrupt postfeminist notions and prior images of womens aggression by explicitly examining aggressive women who are not domesticated or justified by rape.
Kimberly Coates (Committee Chair)
Jeffrey Brown (Committee Member)
90 p.
Comparative; Comparative Literature; Film Studies; Gender Studies; Language Arts; Literature
gender; womens aggression; sexuality; Atomic Blonde; Ghost in the Shell; Wonder Woman; female body; postfeminism; aggression; literary; film; superhero; crime film; action film; superhero film; superheroine; heroine

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  • Gaswint, K. M. (2018). A Comparative Study of Women's Aggression [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1523032004159866

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Gaswint, Kiera. A Comparative Study of Women's Aggression. 2018. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1523032004159866.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Gaswint, Kiera. "A Comparative Study of Women's Aggression." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1523032004159866

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