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Girl Power in popular culture - Background: 1960s 1970s and 1980s pop culture

Girl Power in popular culture - Background: 1960s 1970s and 1980s pop culture: Encyclopedia II - Girl Power in popular culture - Background: 1960s 1970s and 1980s pop culture

Critics have contextualized this phenomenon within the dynamics between Third-wave feminism and Second-wave feminism, citing iconic figures from popular culture of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s as linked to the develpment of popular culture of the 1990s [1], [2], [3], [4] (See also: Scholarship/Girl Power): Girl Power in popular culture - Blaxploitation films and characters. Tamara Dobson in (and as) Cleopatra Jones [5] Teresa Graves as Christie Love in Get Christie Lov ...

Girl Power in popular culture: Encyclopedia II - Girl Power in popular culture - Background: 1960s 1970s and 1980s pop culture

Girl Power in popular culture - Background: 1960s 1970s and 1980s pop culture

Girl Power in popular culture - Blaxploitation films and characters

Tamara Dobson in (and as) Cleopatra Jones [5]
Teresa Graves as Christie Love in Get Christie Love!
Pam Grier in (and as) Coffy and Foxy Brown
Gloria Hendry as Rosie Carver in Live and Let Die and as Sydney in Black Belt Jones

Girl Power in popular culture - Detectives and secret agents

Barbara Bain as Cinnamon Carter in Mission: Impossible
Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale in The Avengers and as Pussy Galore in Goldfinger
The characters of the television show Charlie's Angels
Angie Dickinson as Sergeant Suzanne 'Pepper' Anderson in Police Woman
Barbara Feldon as Agent 99 in Get Smart
Anne Francis in (and as) Honey West
Sharon Gless as Det. Sgt. Christine Cagney and Tyne Daly as Det. Mary Beth Lacey in Cagney & Lacey
Grace Jones as May Day in A View to a Kill
Peggy Lipton as Julie Barnes in the The Mod Squad
Stefanie Powers as Agent April Dancer in The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
Diana Rigg as Emma Peel of The Avengers and as Tracy Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Girl Power in popular culture - Entertainment

Madonna

Girl Power in popular culture - Female action heroes and science fiction

Barbara Bain as Dr. Helena Russell in Space: 1999
JoAnna Cameron as Isis in The Secret of Isis
Lynda Carter in (and as) Wonder Woman
Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia Organa in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
Deidre Hall and Judy Strangis as Electra Woman and Dyna Girl
Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor in The Terminator films
Grace Jones as Zula in Conan the Destroyer
Julie Newmar as Catwoman in the television show, Batman [6]
Brigitte Nielsen in (and as) Red Sonja
Nichelle Nichols as Lieutenant Uhura in Star Trek: The Original Series
Lindsay Wagner as Jaime Sommers in The Bionic Woman
Nameless heroine of the famous 1984 Apple commercial which introduced the Apple Macintosh computer.
Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley in the Alien films

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