Heroines of Comic Books and Literature: Portrayals in Popular Culture

Heroines of Comic Books and Literature: Portrayals in Popular Culture

Heroines of Comic Books and Literature: Portrayals in Popular Culture

Heroines of Comic Books and Literature: Portrayals in Popular Culture

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Overview

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 culture. Contributors go beyond the expected account of women as mothers, wives, warriors, goddesses, and damsels in distress, to provide innovative analysis that situates heroines within culture, revealing them as tough, self-sufficient, and breaking the bounds of gender expectations in places readers may not have expected. Addressing portrayals from Marvel and DC universe, manga, Jack London's novels, to real-life heroes of Iraq war, this is an indispensable book for scholars in rhetoric, literature, popular culture, and others interested in women's issues.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781442275607
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 08/04/2016
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 274
Sales rank: 852,815
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

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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