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.
Maja Bajac-Carter is a doctoral candidate in Communication Studies at Kent State University. Her research focuses on gender, identity, and media studies. She is a contributor to We Are What We Sell: How Advertising Shapes American Life . . . and Always Has (2014). Norma Jones has a PhD in communication and information from Kent State University. She is an editor of Rowman & Littlefield's Sports Icons and Issues in Popular Culture book series and is coeditor of Aging Heroes: Growing Old in Popular Culture (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015). Bob Batchelor teaches in the Media, Journalism & Film department at Miami University and is the founding editor of the Popular Culture Studies Journal. Batchelor edits the Contemporary American Literature and Cultural History of Television book series for Rowman & Littlefield. Among his books are John Updike: A Critical Biography (2013), Gatsby: The Cultural History of the Great American Novel (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014), and Mad Men: A Cultural History (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016).
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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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