Representing Heroic Figures and/of Resistance: Reading Women’s Bodies of Violence in Contemporary Dystopic Literatures

This thesis analyses heroic women in contemporary popular culture, specifically within dystopic texts. Relying on the use of feminist theory to interrogate the texts of the corpus, a clear distinction will be drawn in the introduction between postfeminist discourse and rhetoric and Third Wave femin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ruthven, Andrea
Other Authors: González Fernández, Helena, 1967-
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Universitat de Barcelona 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10803/298592