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Heroines of Comic Books and Literature
Portrayals in Popular Culture
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2014
Summary
Despite the growing importance of heroines across literary culture—and sales figures that demonstrate both young adult and adult females are reading about heroines in droves, particularly in graphic novels, comic books, and YA literature—few scholarly collections have examined the complex relationships between the representations of heroines and the changing societal roles for both women and men.
In Heroines of Comic Books and Literature: Portrayals in Popular Culture, editors Maja Bajac-Carter, Norma Jones, and Bob Batchelor have selected essays by award-winning contributors that offer a variety of perspectives on the representations of heroines in today’s society. Focused on printed media, this collection looks at heroic women depicted in literature, graphic novels, manga, and comic books. Addressing heroines from such sources as the Marvel and DC comic universes, manga, and the Twilight novels, contributors go beyond the account of women as mothers, wives, warriors, goddesses, and damsels in distress.
These engaging and important essays situate heroines within culture, revealing them as tough and self-sufficient females who often break the bounds of gender expectations in places readers may not expect. Analyzing how women are and have been represented in print, this companion volume to Heroines of Film and Television will appeal to scholars of literature, rhetoric, and media as well as to broader audiences that are interested in portrayals of women in popular culture.
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Copyright year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-3147-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-3148-1
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
260
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
1 To Heck with the Village No access
2 From Duckling to Swan No access
3 Salem’s Daughters No access
4 Heroine No access
5 The Bohemian Gypsy, Another Body to Sell No access
6 Writing Women in War No access
7 The Borderland Construction of Latin American and Latina Heroines in Contemporary Visual Media No access
8 Janissary No access
9 Representations of Motherhood in X-Men No access
10 Negotiating Life Spaces No access
11 The Mother of All Superheroes No access
12 Wonder Woman: Lesbian or Dyke? No access
13 Homicidal Lesbian Terrorists to Crimson Caped Crusaders No access
14 Punching Holes in the Sky No access
15 Jumping Rope Naked No access
16 Invisible, Tiny, and Distant No access
17 Heroines Aplenty, but None My Mother Would Know No access
18 Liminality and Capitalism in Spider-Woman and Wonder Woman No access
