https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martina_Navratilova
Friendly rivals: Martina navratilova and Chris Evert
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781610753494
Victory for feminism ?? Martina Navratilova is in the scientific literature but,
Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg (born 18 October 1960), professionally known as Jean-Claude Van Damme and abbreviated as JCVD, a Belgian martial artist, actor, and director best known for his martial arts action films. The most successful of these films include Bloodsport (1988), Kickboxer (1989), Universal Soldier (1992), Hard Target (1993), Street Fighter (1994), Timecop (1994), Sudden Death (1995), JCVD (2008) and The Expendables 2 (2012), is not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Van_Damme
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000241/
Ageing, Popular Culture and Contemporary Feminism Harleys and Hormones
http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/ageing-popular-culture-and-contemporary-feminism-imelda-whelehan/?isb=9781137376527
.............. A sequel in 2012 included Jean-6
Too Old for This Shit?: On Ageing Tough Guys
Dominic Lennard
Abstract:
In the first decade of the 2000s the careers of a number of aging male action stars were reignited through the return of their most iconic characters, among them Bruce Willis’s John McClane in Die Hard 4.0 (2007) and Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008). In his early 60s, Sylvester Stallone flexed for new installments in two iconic tough-guy franchises with Rocky Balboa (2006) and Rambo (2008). More recently Stallone regrouped with a brigade of yesteryear’s He-Men (including Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dolph Lundgren, and Mickey Rourke) in The Expendables (2010) and The Expendables 2 (2012). The proposed chapter positions the yearning for these aging male icons of action violence within the uncertainties of a post-9/11 cultural landscape in the United States. Susan Faludi (2008) has argued persuasively that the threat of terrorism in this decade served to aggressively dismiss other cultural priorities, especially those of feminism and its questioning of traditional gender roles. For Faludi, the construction of 9/11 as a form of “emasculation” led to a cultural romanticisation of traditional masculinities and the hero narratives that articulate them, as well as a general indifference to women in the mainstream media. In this context, these male action stars can be seen as resonant cultural symbols of stability, comfort and “authenticity”—their age adding to a paternalism romanticised by a US under threat.http://www.amazon.com/Ageing-Popular-Culture-Contemporary-Feminism/dp/113737652X
