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by Maud Lavin

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The new celebration of women's aggression in contemporary culture, from Kill Bill and Prime Suspect to the artists group Toxic Titties.

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 crucial questions of how to manifest aggression, how to represent it, and how to keep open a cultural space for it.

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  • Title Push Comes to Shove: New Images of Aggressive Women
  • Author Maud Lavin
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 300
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher MIT Press
  • Publication date 2012-09
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780262518161 / 0262518163
  • Weight 0.74 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.8 x 5.22 x 0.64 in (19.81 x 13.26 x 1.63 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Art Aspects
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Category Gender Studies
  • Dewey Decimal Code 704.942

About the author

Maud Lavin is Professor of Visual and Critical Studies and Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the author of Cut with the Kitchen Knife: The Weimar Photomontages of Hannah Hoch and Clean New World: Culture, Politics, and Graphic Design (MIT Press, 2001).

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