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Author Lavin, Maud.

Title Push comes to shove : new images of aggressive women / Maud Lavin.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2010]
©2010

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  704.9424 L412P    Check Shelf
Description x, 300 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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, is necessary, large, messy, psychological, and physical. Aggression 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: 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; the erotica of Zane and the art of Kara Walker; the group dynamics of artists (including the artists group Toxic Titties) and activists; and YouTube videos of a woman boxer training and fighting. Women need aggression and need to use it consciously, Lavin writes. With Push Comes to Shove, she explores the crucial questions of how to manifest aggression, how to represent it, and how to keep open a cultural space for it.'--Provided by publisher.
Chronological Term 1900 - 2099
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.
Aggressiveness. (OCoLC)fst00800263
Art. (OCoLC)fst00815177
Arts, American. (OCoLC)fst00817891
Popular culture. (OCoLC)fst01071344
Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Electronic resource $z 9780262289979
ISBN 9780262123099 (hardcover: alkaline paper)
0262123096 (hardcover: alkaline paper)
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