Girl power and girl heroes

Girl Heroes: The New Force In Popular Culture is a 2002 text by Susan Hopkins, a Lecturer in The School of Journalism and Communication, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia). It is a cultural analysis of the contemporary archetype of the girl hero in popular culture.
Hopkins argues for a link between the 1990s British Band, Spice Girls, their vision of girl power, and the creation of a new kind of "girl hero." Hopkins also explores the roles of figures from the 90's such as Britney Spears, supermodels, Lara Croft, Xena, the Charlie's Angels of the 2000s, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, Mulan, The Powerpuff Girls, and Buffy.
She also draws comparisons between these images and earlier ones, such as Emma Peel of The Avengers, the 1970s television show Wonder Woman, Madonna and the Charlie's Angels of the 1970s, pointing out the relative independence of this archetype from male, parental, or even peer support The phrase "Girl Power" is a term of empowerment, expressed a cultural phenomenon of the mid-late 1990s to the early 2000s, and is also linked to third-wave feminism.

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