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Monstrous women in comics /
"Monsters seem to be everywhere these days, in popular shows on television, in award-winning novels, and again and again in Hollywood blockbusters. They are figures that lurk in the margins and so, by contrast, help to illuminate the center-the embodiment of abnormality that summons the definit...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2020.
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| Colección: | Horror and monstrosity studies series.
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| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Monstrous Women in Comics
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part 1: The Origins, Agency, and Paradoxes of Monstrous Women
- 1 Rewriting to Control: How the Origins of Harley Quinn, Wonder Woman, and Mary Magdalene Matter to Women's Perceived Power
- 2 Exploring the Monstrous Feminist Frame: Marvel's She-Hulk as Male-Centric Postfeminist Discourse
- 3 "There Is More to Me Than Just Hunger": Female Monsters and Liminal Spaces in Monstress and Pretty Deadly
- Part 2: The Body as Monstrous
- 4 The (Un)Remarkable Fatness of Valiant's Faith
- 5 New and Improved? Disability and Monstrosity in Gail Simone's Batgirl
- 6 Horrible Victorians: Interrogating Power, Sex, and Gender in InSEXts
- Part 3: Childbearing as Monstrous
- 7 Kicking Ass in Flip-Flops: Inappropriate/d Generations and Monstrous Pregnancy in Comics Narratives
- 8 The Monstrous Portrayal of the Maternal Bolivian Chola in Contemporary Comics
- 9 The Monstrous "Mother" in Moto Hagio's Marginal: The Posthuman, the Human, and the Bioengineered Uterus
- Part 4: Monsters of Childhood
- 10 SeDUCKtress! Magica De Spell, Scrooge McDuck, and the Avuncular Anthropomorphism of Carl Barks's Midcentury Disney Comics
- 11 On the Edge of 1990s Japan: Kyoko Okazaki and the Horror of Adolescence
- 12 Chinese Snake Woman Resurfaces in Comics: Considering the Case Study of Calabash Brothers
- Part 5: Taking On the Role of Monster
- 13 Monochromatic Teats, Teeth, and Tentacles: Monstrous Visual Rhetoric in Stephen L. Stern and Christopher Steininger's Beowulf: The Graphic Novel
- 14 Beauty and Her B(r)east(s): Monstrosity and College Women in The Jaguar
- 15 UFO (Unusual Female Other) Sightings in Saucer Country/State: Metaphors of Identity and Presidential Politics
- About the Contributors