The Sarah Connor Charm School
Books and Other Resources
Non-Fiction
Empowerment
Real Knockouts: The Physical Feminism of Women's Self-Defense by Martha McCaughey --includes vital commentary about how the role of Sarah Connor affected young women's awareness of their own potential!
The Frailty Myth: Redefining the Physical Potential of Women and Girls by Collette Dowling --ditto, strongly influenced by McCaughey
Fitness
A Woman's Book of Strength by Karen Andes --she over emphasizes legs and under emphasizes the imporant core abs but this can be easily remedied by just realizing it and not doing so much leg work and more ab.
Boot Camp: Be all you used to be (the Sergeant's Program) by Patrick Avon
Self-Defense, martial arts and theories
Exploding the Myth of Self-Defense: A Survival Guide for Every Woman by Dr. Judith Fein --Dr. Fein's books are the most practical here, but do not replace actual training
Are You a Target: A Guide to Self-Protection and Personal Safety by Dr. Judith Fein
Beauty Bites Beast: Awakening the Warrior Within Women and Girls by Ellen Snortland
Stopping Rape: Successful Survival Strategies by Pauline B. Bart & Patricia H. O'Brien --good strategies are included, among a lot of statistics and theory
Women in the Martial Arts ed. by Carol A. Wiley
Firearms
Armed and Female: Twelve Million American Women Own Guns, Should You? by Paxton Quigley
Stayin' Alive: Armed and Female in an Unsafe World by Paxton Quigley
In the Gravest Extreme: The Role of the Firearm in Personal Protection by Massad F. Ayoob
Movie Analysis
The Terminator(BFI Modern Classics) by Sean French
Action Chicks: New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture ed. by Sherrie A. Inness
Tough Girls: Women Warriors and Wonder Women in Popular Culture by Sherrie A. Inness
Reel Knockouts: Violent Women in the Movies ed. by Martha McCaughey & Neal King
Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema by Yvonne Tasker
Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre and the Action Cinema by Yvonne Tasker
Terminator Novels
Movie Adaptations:
The Terminator by Randall Frakes & William Wisher based on the original screenplay by James Cameron with Gale Anne Hurd
Terminator 2: Judgment Day by Randall Frakes based on the original screen play by James Cameron & William Wisher
Licensed Novels:
While these may not be perfect, they do show Sarah as strong and savvy.
Terminator 2: Infiltrator (Book 1), Rising Storm (Book 2), and Future War (Book3) by S.M. Stirling
Terminator 2: The New John Connor Chronicles -Dark Futures (Book 1), An Evil Hour (Book 2) and Times of Trouble (Book 3) by Russell Blackford
(comics coming soon)
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