Heroines of Comic Books and Literature : Portrayals in Popular Culture /

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This edited collection offers a variety of perspectives focusing on representation of women as heroines across printed media. In addition, the book extends the discussion of heroines for the broader audience, which provides a much needed, more nuanced discussion of this topic across American popular...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bajac-Carter, Maja, 1979-, Jones, Norma, 1972-, Batchelor, Bob
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]
Temas:
Women in literature.
Heroines in literature.
Women in popular culture.
Women in mass media.
Comic books, strips, etc. > History and criticism.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Héroïnes dans la littérature.
Femmes dans la culture populaire.
Femmes dans les médias.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Comic books, strips, etc.
Heroines in literature
Women in literature
Women in mass media
Women in popular culture
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. I Literature
  • 1. To Heck with the Village: Fantastic Heroines, Journey and Return / Sandra J. Lindow
  • 2. From Duckling to Swan: What Makes a Twilight Heroine Strong / Tricia Clasen
  • 3. Salem's Daughters: Witchcraft, Justice, and the Heroine in Popular Culture / Lauren Lemley
  • 4. Heroine: Christina of Markyate / K.A. Laity
  • 5. The Bohemian Gypsy, Another Body to Sell: Deciphering Esmeralda in Popular Culture / Adina Schneeweis
  • 6. Writing Women in War: Speaking through, about, and for Female Soldiers in Iraq / Christina M. Smith
  • pt. II Exotic, Foreign, Familiar, and Queer
  • 7. The Borderland Construction of Latin American and Latina Heroines in Contemporary Visual Media / Mauricio Espinoza
  • 8. Janissary: An Orientalist Heroine or a Role Model for Muslim Women? / Hande Eslen-Ziya
  • 9. Representations of Motherhood in X-Men / Christopher Paul Wagenheim
  • 10. Negotiating Life Spaces: How Marriage Marginalized Storm / Anita McDaniel
  • 11. The Mother of All Superheroes: Idealizations of Femininity in Wonder Woman / Caryn E. Neumann
  • 12. Wonder Woman: Lesbian or Dyke?: Paradise Island as a Woman's Community / Trina Robbins
  • 13. Homicidal Lesbian Terrorists to Crimson Caped Crusaders: How Folk and Mainstream Lesbian Heroes Queer Cultural Space / AprilJo Murphy
  • pt. III Contemporary American Graphic Novels/Comics
  • 14. Punching Holes in the Sky: Carol Danvers and the Potential of Superheroinism / Nathan Miczo
  • 15. Jumping Rope Naked: John Byrne, Metafiction, and the Comics Code / Roy Cook
  • 16. Invisible, Tiny, and Distant: The Powers and Roles of Marvel's Early Female Superheroes / Joseph Darowski
  • 17. Heroines Aplenty, but None My Mother Would Know: Marvel's Lack of an Iconic Superheroine / T. Keith Edmunds
  • 18. Liminality and Capitalism in Spider-Woman and Wonder Woman: How to Make Stronger (i.e., Male) Two Super Powerful Women / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
  • 19. Empowerment as Transgression: The Rise and Fall of the Black Cat in Kevin Smith's The Evil That Men Do / Michael R. Kramer.

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