Super-Girls of the Future: Girlhood and Agency in Contemporary Superhero Comics

Super-Girls of the Future: Girlhood and Agency in Contemporary Superhero Comics investigates girl superheroes published by DC and Marvel Comics in the first two decades of the twenty-first century, asking who the new-and-improved super-girls are and what potentials they hold for imagining girls as agents of change, in the genre as well as its socio-cultural context.

As super-girls have grown increasingly numerous and diverse since the turn of the millennium, they provide an opportunity for ...