robinturner | Begging for articles

A favour to ask ....

I've set my students an assignment to find and evaluate an online article that makes an argument about a female hero in film or television. There is plenty of good stuff out there about Xena and Buffy, but it's a little harder to find suitable texts outside this area. We're looking for texts that follow at least some of the conventions of academic writing (clear argument, avoidance of incomprehensible slang, citation where necessary etc.) but are not so academic that a non-native-speaker undergraduate would find them impossible to understand (e.g. something with a title like "The Rights (and Lefts) of (Cat)woman: a post-structuralist anal-ysis of fe/male (s)heroes." is out).

If you can send me any links to suitable articles on popular female heroes (Catwoman, Charlie's Angels, Nikita, Sculley, Ripley etc.) I'd be very grateful.

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