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The post-feminist Mystique.(Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction)(Athena's Daughters: Television's New Women Warriors)(Action Chicks: New Images of Women in Popular Culture)(Book review)

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Feriss, Suzanna, and Mallory Young, eds. 2005. Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction. Routledge. $100.00 hc. $28.95 sc. 288 pp.

Early, Frances, and Kathleen Kennedy, eds. 2003. Athena's Daughters: Television's New Women Warriors. Syracuse University Press. $39.95 hc; $19.95 sc. 192 pp.

Innes, Sherre. 2004. Action Chicks: New Images of Women in Popular Culture. Palgrave Macmillan. $79.95 hc; $18.95 sc. 304 pp.

The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American popular culture critics. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that cultural studies theorists suffered in the beginning of the twenty-first ...

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