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 ...
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 ...Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Edited by Maja Bajac-Carter; Norma Jones and Bob Batchelor - Contributions by Sandra J. Lindow; Tricia Clasen; Lauren Lemley; K. A. Laity; Adina Schneeweis; Christina M. Smith; Mauricio Espinoza; Itir Erhart; Hande Eslen-Ziya; Christopher Paul Wagenheim;
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Acknowledgments Introduction I. Literature Chapter 1: To Heck with the Village: Fantastic Heroines Journey and Return Sandra J. Lindow Chapter 2: From Duckling to Swan: What Makes a Twilight Heroine Strong Tricia Clasen Chapter 3: Salem's Daughters: Witchcraft Justice and the Heroine in Popular Culture Lauren Lemley Chapter 4: Heroine: Christina of Markyate K. A. Laity Chapter 5: The Bohemian Gypsy Another Body to Sell: Deciphering Esmeralda in Popular Culture Adina Schneeweis Chapter 6: Writing Women in War: Speaking Through About And For Female Soldiers in Iraq Christina M. Smith II. Exotic Foreign Familiar and Queer Chapter 7: The Borderland Construction of Latin American and Latina Heroines in Contemporary Visual Media Mauricio Espinoza Chapter 8: Janissary: An Orientalist Heroine Or a Role Model For Muslim Women? Itir Erhart & Hande Eslen-Ziya Chapter 9: Representations of Motherhood in X-men Christopher Paul Wagenheim Chapter 10: Negotiating Life Spaces: How Marriage Marginalized Storm Anita McDaniel Chapter 11: The Mother of All Superheroes: Idealization of Femininity in Wonder Woman Sharon Zechowski & Caryn E. Neumann Chapter 12: Wonder Woman: Lesbian or Dyke? Paradise Island as a Woman's Community Trina Robbins Chapter 13: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorists to Crimson Caped Crusaders: How Folk and Mainstream Lesbian Heroes Queer Cultural Space April Jo Murphy III. Contemporary American Graphic Novels/Comics Chapter 14: Punching Holes in the Sky: Carol Danvers and the Potential of Superheroinism Nathan Miczo Chapter 15: Jumping Rope Naked: John Byrne Metafiction and the Comics Code Roy Cook Chapter 16: Invisible Tiny and Distant: The First Female Superheroes of the Marvel Age of Comics Joseph Darowski Chapter 17: Heroines Aplenty but None My Mother Would Know: Marvel's Lack of An Iconic Superheroine T. Keith Edmunds Chapter 18: Liminality and Capitalism in Spider-Woman and Wonder Woman or: How to Make Stronger (i.e. male) Two Super Powerful Women Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns Chapter 19: Empowerment as Transgression: The Rise and Fall of The Black Cat in Kevin Smith's The Evil That Men Do Michael R. Kramer Index About the Editors and Contributors
Acknowledgments Introduction I. Literature Chapter 1: To Heck with the Village: Fantastic Heroines Journey and Return Sandra J. Lindow Chapter 2: From Duckling to Swan: What Makes a Twilight Heroine Strong Tricia Clasen Chapter 3: Salem's Daughters: Witchcraft Justice and the Heroine in Popular Culture Lauren Lemley Chapter 4: Heroine: Christina of Markyate K. A. Laity Chapter 5: The Bohemian Gypsy Another Body to Sell: Deciphering Esmeralda in Popular Culture Adina Schneeweis Chapter 6: Writing Women in War: Speaking Through About And For Female Soldiers in Iraq Christina M. Smith II. Exotic Foreign Familiar and Queer Chapter 7: The Borderland Construction of Latin American and Latina Heroines in Contemporary Visual Media Mauricio Espinoza Chapter 8: Janissary: An Orientalist Heroine Or a Role Model For Muslim Women? Itir Erhart & Hande Eslen-Ziya Chapter 9: Representations of Motherhood in X-men Christopher Paul Wagenheim Chapter 10: Negotiating Life Spaces: How Marriage Marginalized Storm Anita McDaniel Chapter 11: The Mother of All Superheroes: Idealization of Femininity in Wonder Woman Sharon Zechowski & Caryn E. Neumann Chapter 12: Wonder Woman: Lesbian or Dyke? Paradise Island as a Woman's Community Trina Robbins Chapter 13: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorists to Crimson Caped Crusaders: How Folk and Mainstream Lesbian Heroes Queer Cultural Space April Jo Murphy III. Contemporary American Graphic Novels/Comics Chapter 14: Punching Holes in the Sky: Carol Danvers and the Potential of Superheroinism Nathan Miczo Chapter 15: Jumping Rope Naked: John Byrne Metafiction and the Comics Code Roy Cook Chapter 16: Invisible Tiny and Distant: The First Female Superheroes of the Marvel Age of Comics Joseph Darowski Chapter 17: Heroines Aplenty but None My Mother Would Know: Marvel's Lack of An Iconic Superheroine T. Keith Edmunds Chapter 18: Liminality and Capitalism in Spider-Woman and Wonder Woman or: How to Make Stronger (i.e. male) Two Super Powerful Women Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns Chapter 19: Empowerment as Transgression: The Rise and Fall of The Black Cat in Kevin Smith's The Evil That Men Do Michael R. Kramer Index About the Editors and Contributors
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