Ink-stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors

From Wonder Woman to Buffy Summers Emma Peel to Sydney Bristow Charlie's Angels to The Powerpuff Girls Superwomen are more than just love interests or sidekicks who stand by their Supermen. In her new book Stuller shows how the female hero in modern mythology has broken through the boy's club barrier of tradition and reveals the pivotal role of high-heeled crime fighters in popular culture.Featuring spies and sexuality daddy's girls and super-mothers this is a comprehensive engaging and thought-provoking guide to female detectives meta-humans and action heroines as well as their creators directors performers and consumers. The book also includes a glossary of modern mythic women from Aeon to Zoe as well as a foreword by acclaimed cultural commentator Roz Kaveney author of Superheroes! Capes and Crusaders in Comics and Films (published by I.B. Tauris April 2008).