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And tellingly, Cameron has done it by mixing the sober feminism of his Terminator and Aliens characters with the sexed-up girl power of a Britney Spears concert.

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But it's a new 2000 millennium now, and while Charlie's Angels and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon are kicking up a storm on movie screens, it's been down to James Cameron to bring empowered female warriors back to television screens.

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Oxford English Dictionary Ī 2001 update to the Oxford English Dictionary defined girl power as:Īfter the Sarah Connors and Ellen Ripleys of the 1980s, the 1990s weren't so kind to the superwoman format- Xena Warrior Princess excepted.

Frances Early and Kathleen Kennedy in the introduction to Athena’s Daughters: Television’s New Women Warriors, discuss what they describe as a link between girl power and a "new" image of women warriors in popular culture. Media theorist Kathleen Rowe Karlyn in her article "Scream, Popular Culture, and Feminism's Third Wave: I'm Not My Mother" and Irene Karras in "The Third Wave's Final girl: Buffy the Vampire Slayer" suggest a link with third-wave feminism. The slogan has also been examined within the context of the academic field, for example Buffy studies. Geri Halliwell, a member of the Spice Girls, credited former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, a leading conservative, as the pioneer of their ideology of girl power. In her 2002 book Girl Heroes: The New Force in Popular Culture, Professor Susan Hopkins suggests a correlation between girl power, Spice Girls, and female action heroes at the end of the 20th century. Some other musical artists who have used the slogan in their music are Welsh band Helen Love, with it appearing in the chorus of their 1992 song “Formula One Racing Girls”, and pop-punk duo Shampoo, who released an album and single titled Girl Power in 1995.īritish pop quintet Spice Girls popularized the slogan in the mid-1990s. The phrase is sometimes sensationally spelled grrrl power, based on the spelling of riot grrrl. (Ironically, the zine first coined the "girl power" slogan, later co-opted by Britain's bubblegum pop band the Spice Girls.) Bikini Kill earned a reputation in the punk underground for confronting certain standards of that genre for example, asking people to slam at the side of the stage, so that women would not get pushed out of the front, and inviting women to take the mic and talk about sexual abuse. The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll credits the zine with coining the slogan: "In their feminist fanzine Bikini Kill they articulated an agenda for young women in and outside of music the band put those ideas to practice. The term became popular in the early and mid 90s punk culture. The band's lead singer, Kathleen Hanna, said was inspired by the Black Power slogan. In 1991, US punk band Bikini Kill published a feminist zine called Girl Power. Girls wearing "Girl power" sashes at the 2017 Women's March in New York City