Sentences with phrase «as a feminist heroine»

Victoria seems rather an odd choice as a feminist heroine, given that her name became synonymous with sexual conservatism and rigid gender codes.

Bathsheba Everdene is often credited as a feminist heroine as she runs her own farm and clearly proclaims her disdain for the idea of being some man's property.

Both Muholi and Nancy Spero act as feminist heroines for outsiders on the margins — radicalizing the gravity of feminist and queer assertions for autonomy, expression and self - documentation.

Not exact matches

After all, this is also a movie in which the supposedly feminist heroines are dressed up as hookers by its director.

And as interpreted magnificently by Bel Powley, Minnie Goetz emerges as just another of this year's many feminist heroines: a young woman gradually, through thick and thin, discovering her agency, emotional, sexual and otherwise.

When she catches Roland two - timing her with some woodland strumpet, Marianne finds herself singing a different tune (specifically, Burt Bacharach's «I'll Never Fall in Love Again»), donning gobs of goth - girl eyeshadow and an aggressively punk attitude as she transforms herself into a sword - wielding, independent - minded feminist heroine.

So, even with her best efforts, that robs Moretz of her opportunity to compete in the same dystopian, feminist, heroine league as Jennifer Lawrence, who played Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games series.

It could be regarded as a feminist parable — that's if we refuse to condemn the psychopathic heroine's vengeful reaction to being treated as property.

Far too many people have tried to pigeonhole her Mildred Hayes as a feminist icon or straightforward heroine, but that gives the role, and her performance, too little credit.

Hailed by some folks as «feminist» comedy, Spy tickles our funny bone by targeting a heroine so armored up — by poundage and sweet denial — she's proof against any humiliation.

In a year when some of the best films demonstrated the hypocrisy and ineffectiveness of the last gasps of ruling patriarchy, little Lale is right up there with Imperator Furiosa as a badass feminist heroine.