List of female action heroes and villains
The following is a list of female action heroes.
Characters
Film
- Alice from the Resident Evil films and video games
- Ellen Ripley from the Alien series[1]
- Trinity from The Matrix series[2]
- Inspector Jessica Yang in Supercop[3]
- Barbara Meredith from Zorro's Black Whip
- Rita Arnold from The Tiger Woman (1944 film)
- Lara Croft from Tomb raider series
- Motoko Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell
- Sarah Connor from Terminator series
- Elizabeth Swann from Pirates of the Caribbean
- Sonya Blade from Mortal Kombat
Literature
- Molly Millions in Neuromancer and "Johnny Mnemonic," by William Gibson[4]
Television
- Starbuck from the Battlestar Galactica series
- Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King from The Avengers[5]
- Purdey from The New Avengers[5]
- Buffy Summers from Buffy the Vampire Slayer[6]
- Kim Possible from the tv series of same name.
- Doña María Teresa (Tessa) Alvarado from Queen of Swords[7]
- Sydney Bristow from Alias (TV series, 2001-2006)[citation needed]
- Xena and Gabrielle from Xena: Warrior Princess and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys[8]
Videogames
- Samus Aran from the Metroid series
- Chell from the Portal series
- Lara Croft from the Tomb Raider series.
- Sonya Blade from Mortal Kombat
See also
Notes and references
- ^ Weaver stands alone as a female action hero[1]
- ^ [2] Sparknotes analysis of major characters
- ^ Supercop as Woman Warrior
- ^ Razor girls: Genre and Gender in Cyberpunk Fiction
- ^ a b The Complete Avengers by Dave Rogers ISBN 1-85283-244-4
- ^ TV Zone Sword and Sorcery special March 2001
- ^ TV Zone issue 132 November 2000
- ^ TV Zone Sword and Sorcery special March 2001
Further reading
- Alvarez, Maria. "Feminist icon in a catsuit (female lead character Emma Peel in defunct 1960s UK TV series The Avengers)", New Statesman, 14 August 1998.
- Au, Wagner James. "Supercop as Woman Warrior." Salon.com.
- Barr, Marleen S. Future Females, the Next Generation : New Voices and Velocities in Feminist Science Fiction Criticism. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.
- Buffy The Patriarchy Slayer - Bibliography of scholarly articles on Buffy Studies.
- Deuber-Mankowsky, Astrid and Dominic J. Bonfiglio (Translator). Lara Croft: Cyber Heroine. Minneapolis: University Of Minnesota Press, 2005.
- Early, Frances and Kathleen Kennedy, Athena's Daughters: Television's New Women Warriors, Syracuse University Press, 2003.
- Garner, Jack. "Strong women can be heroes, too." Democrat and Chronicle. 15 June 2001.
- Heinecken, Dawn. Warrior Women of Television: A Feminist Cultural Analysis of the New Female Body in Popular Media, New York: P. Lang, 2003.
- Ho, Sam. "Licensed to Kick Men: The Jane Bond Films." The Restless Breed: Cantonese Stars of the Sixties. Hong Kong: Urban Council of Hong Kong, 1996. ISBN 962-7040-50-9
- Hopkins, Susan, Girl Heroes: the New Force in Popular Culture, Pluto Press Australia, 2002.
- Inness, Sherrie A. (ed.) Action Chicks: New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
- ———. Tough Girls : Women Warriors and Wonder Women in Popular Culture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
- Karlyn, Kathleen Rowe. "Scream, Popular Culture, and Feminism's Third Wave: 'I'm Not My Mother'. Genders: Presenting Innovative Work in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences No. 38 (2003).
- Karras, Irene. "The Third Wave's Final Girl: Buffy the Vampire Slayer." thirdspace 1:2 (March 2002).
- Kennedy, Helen W. "Lara Croft: Feminist Icon or Cyberbimbo?: On the Limits of Textual Analysis". Game Studies: The International Journal of Computer Game Research. 2:2 (December, 2002).
- Kim, L. S. "Making women warriors: a transnational reading of Asian female action heroes in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media. No. 48, Winter, 2006.
- Kingston, Maxine Hong. The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. New York: Vintage, 1975.
- Magoulick, Mary. "Frustrating Female Heroism: Mixed Messages in Xena, Nikita, and Buffy." The Journal of Popular Culture, Volume 39 Issue 5 (October 2006).
- Mainon, Dominique. The Modern Amazons: Warrior Women on Screen. Pompton Plains, N.J. : Limelight Editions, 2006.
- Osgerby, Bill, Anna Gough-Yates, and Marianne Wells. Action TV : Tough-Guys, Smooth Operators and Foxy Chicks. London: Routledge, 2001.
- Rowland, Robin. "Warrior queens and blind critics." Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 31 July 2004.
- Spicuzza, Mary. "Butt-Kicking Babes." AlterNet. 27 March 2001.
- Tasker, Yvonne. Action and Adventure Cinema. New York: Routledge, 2004.
- ———.Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Culture. London: Routledge 1998
- ———.Spectacular Bodies : Gender, Genre, and the Action Cinema. London and New York: Routledge, 1993.
- Trickey, Helyn. "Girls with Gauntlets." Turner Network Television.
- Ventura, Michael. "Warrior Women." Psychology Today. Nov/Dec 1998. 31 (6).