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This chapter analyzes the contradictions and ambivalence of Enough’s post-aware, postfeminist fantasy of victim empowerment in the form of a female action heroine whose sexualized, Latina body is both objectified and reconfigured, leading to a highly artificial conclusion in the form of the abuser’s death and the abused mother’s exoneration.
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Shoos, D.L. (2017). Enough, the Action Heroine, and the Limits of Violence. In: Domestic Violence in Hollywood Film. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65064-7_6
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