The New Heroines: Female Embodiment and Technology in 21st-Century Popular Culture

This book explores how the next generation of teen and young adult heroines in popular culture are creating a new feminist ideal for the 21st century.

• Provides a new roadmap to analyze teen and young-adult heroines in popular culture

• Compares a broad range of strong female characters from a variety of genres and different media

• Addresses compelling philosophical debates about female embodiment and technology in popular culture

• Examines several philosophical arguments about human subjectivity, including posthumanism, with accessible examples