Looking for Girls in All the Boys' Places
An Unlikely Feminist Film Fest Publicly Accessible Content Issue #2 Stephanie Rosenfeld Wish there were more kick-ass female characters in the movies? Enough with The Piano-esqe mute-is-powerful...
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Bad(ass) Brains
An Interview with Filmmaker Marina Zurkow, Creator of the Web's Freaky, Fiesty Cerebelle du Jour, Braingirl Publicly Accessible Content Ruth Ozeki Marina Zurkow online_brain_main.gifI met Marina...
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Female Bonding
The Strange History of Wonder Woman Publicly Accessible Content Hot & Bothered KL Pereira female_bonding_33.jpg“Bind me as tight as you can, girls, with the biggest ropes and chains you can find!”...
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The Cold Shoulder
Saving Superheroines from Comic-book Violence Publicly Accessible Content Super Shannon Cochran ColdShoulder-web.jpgThere’s a new Bat in Gotham City. Like Bruce Wayne, she’s a rich socialite by day...
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The Supergirls: A feminist response to catsuits?
Lillia Robinson begins her book Wonder Women: Feminisms and Superheroes with the following observation: The immanence of an alternative and implicitly feminist mythology in the stories of female...
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Revenge of the Feminerd: In Praise of Batgirl
The three of us eight-year-olds scrabbled through the dress-up trunk, tossing aside toy crowns and shiny costume jewelery onto the hardwood floor. We were playing Batman and the goal was finding the...
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Meet the Teen Girl Superhero Squad Who Fight Racism and "Nerd Discrimination"
Something truly rad has happened in Winnipeg, Canada. A group of teenage girls has created their own set of superhero trading cards. The after school group has dreamed up heroines who fight against the...
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Is Wonder Woman Too Muscular for the Silver Screen?
This is a dark summer for geek girls. Though superhero and comic book-based films are all the rage these days, it’s male crime-fighters who get all the attention: there are no films starring female...
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