04361oam 2200805Ia 450 991079168390332120190503073355.00-262-29151-71-282-89924-497866128992490-262-28955-5(CKB)2560000000053467(OCoLC)680434706(CaPaEBR)ebrary10424682(SSID)ssj0000441343(PQKBManifestationID)11290753(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000441343(PQKBWorkID)10444097(PQKB)10576462(MiAaPQ)EBC3339167(OCoLC)680434706(OCoLC)738353820(OCoLC)758544548(OCoLC)816618649(OCoLC)870409046(OCoLC)961519232(OCoLC)962599829(OCoLC)975597635(OCoLC)1016976546(OCoLC)1017994518(OCoLC)1038187910(OCoLC)1041796971(OCoLC)1047891243(OCoLC)1064055060(OCoLC)1077849055(OCoLC-P)680434706(MaCbMITP)8000(Au-PeEL)EBL3339167(CaPaEBR)ebr10424682(CaONFJC)MIL289924(EXLCZ)99256000000005346720101109d2010 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrPush comes to shove new images of aggressive women /Maud LavinCambridge, Mass. MIT Press©20101 online resource (319 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-262-12309-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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, 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, including 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. Women need aggression and need to use it consciously, Lavin writes. With Push Comes to Shove, she explores the questions of how to manifest aggression, how to represent it, and how to keep open a cultural space for it. --From publisher's description.Women in artWomen in popular cultureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryWomen in popular cultureUnited StatesHistory21st centuryAggressiveness in artAggressiveness in popular cultureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAggressiveness in popular cultureUnited StatesHistory21st centuryArts, American20th centuryArts, American21st centuryPopular cultureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryPopular cultureUnited StatesHistory21st centuryARTS/GeneralWomen in art.Women in popular cultureHistoryWomen in popular cultureHistoryAggressiveness in art.Aggressiveness in popular cultureHistoryAggressiveness in popular cultureHistoryArts, AmericanArts, AmericanPopular cultureHistoryPopular cultureHistory704.9/4240973Lavin Maud625100OCoLC-POCoLC-PBOOK9910791683903321Push comes to shove3728007UNINA