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The book, Girl Heroes: The New Force In Popular Culture (2002), by Dr. Susan Hopkins (a Lecturer in The School of Journalism and Communication, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia), is a cultural analysis of the contemporary archetype of the girl hero in popular culture. As developed and inspired by the Spice Girls and their vision of Girl Power, girl heroes (both real and fictional) are self-controlled, successful, feminine characters, who are often sexually aware. In addition to the Spice Girls, Hopkins explores the roles of Britney Spears, supermodels, Lara Croft, Xena, the Charlie's Angels of the 2000s, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, Mulan, The Powerpuff Girls, and Buffy in developing this new image which informs and inspires pro-active, strong, and empowered behaviour in adoring female fans. Lecturer is the name given to university teachers in most of the English-speaking world (but not at most universities in the U.S. or Canada) who do not hold a professorship. ...
The University of Queensland The University of Queensland (UQ) has its main campus in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, specifically in the suburb of St Lucia. ...
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Cultural analysis is a stream of investigation which seeks to understand and map trends, influences, effects, and affects within cultures. ...
An archetype is an idealized model of a person, object, or concept from which similar instances are derived, copied, patterned, or emulated. ...
The Spice Girls were an all female pop group who formed in 1993 in London, UK. After releasing their debut single, Wannabe, in 1996 the group went to become a pop phenomenon that dominated popular music towards the end of the 20th century. ...
Girl Power as a term of empowerment developed during the mid - 1990s. ...
The Spice Girls were an all female pop group who formed in 1993 in London, UK. After releasing their debut single, Wannabe, in 1996 the group went to become a pop phenomenon that dominated popular music towards the end of the 20th century. ...
Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American pop singer-songwriter, dancer, actress, author and executive producer. ...
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The Angels: Lucy Liu, Cameron Diaz, and Drew Barrymore Charlies Angels (2000) is an action/comedy film based on the 1970s television series Charlies Angels. ...
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Mulan is the thirty-sixth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon, produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, and first released on June 5, 1998 by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution. ...
The Powerpuff Girls is an American animated television series about three little girls born with superpowers who have dedicated their lives to fighting crime and the forces of evil. ...
Buffy Anne Summers is the title fictional character in the film Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the television program of the same name. ...
Girl Heroes draws comparisons between these images and earlier, similar ones, such as those created by Emma Peel of The Avengers, the 1970s television show Wonder Woman, Madonna and the Charlie's Angels of the 1970s, pointing out the relative independence of this archetype from male, parental, or even peer support [1]. The Avengers, John Steed (Patrick Macnee) and Emma Peel (Diana Rigg), appear on the cover of a 1994 reprint of an Avengers novel co-written by Macnee. ...
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Charlies Angels was a television series broadcast from 1976 to 1981, about three women who work for a fictional private investigation agency, the Charles Townsend Agency. ...
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One of the most interesting aspects of the book is Hopkins' identification of the way in which our sense of self-identity is increasingly registered against the degree to which we exist within the media. This issue extends well beyond feminism and is one of the most important contributions the book has to make to the field of cultural analysis. Feminism is a diverse, competing, and often opposing collection of social theories, political movements, and moral philosophies, largely motivated by or concerning the experiences of women, especially in terms of their social, political, and economic inequalities. ...
Cultural analysis is a stream of investigation which seeks to understand and map trends, influences, effects, and affects within cultures. ...
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References - Hopkins, Susan. Girl Heroes: The New Force In Popular Culture. Annandale NSW: Pluto Press Australia, 2002. (ISBN 1864031573)
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