Reel knockouts : violent women in the movies

* Acknowledgments * What's a Mean Woman like You Doing in a Movie like This? (Neal King and Martha McCaughey) * Part I: Genre Films *If Her Stunning Beauty Doesn't Bring You to Your Knees, Her Deadly Drop Kick Will: Violent Women in the Hong Kong Kung Fu Film (Wendy Arons) * If Looks Could Kill: Power, Revenge, and Stripper Movies (Jeffrey A. Brown) * The Gun and the Badge: Hollywood and the Female Lawman (Carol M. Dole) * Caged Heat: The (R)evolution of Women-in-Prison Films (Suzanna Danuta Walters) * Sharon Stone's (An)Aesthetic (Susan Knobloch) * Part II: New Bonds and New Communities * Sometimes Being a Bitch Is All a Woman Has to Hold On To: Memory, Haunting, and Revenge in Dolores Claiborne (Laura Grindstaff) * Waiting to Set It Off: African American Women and the Sapphire Fixation (Kimberly Springer) * The Gun-in-the-Handbag, a Critical Controversy, and a Primal Scene (Barbara L. Miller) * Action Heroines and Female Viewers: What Women Have to Say (Tiina Vares) * Imagined Violence/Queer Violence: Representations of Rage and Resistance (Judith Halberstam) * About the Contributors