Research Catalog

Title

Heroines of Comic Books and Literature : Portrayals in Popular Culture / edited by Maja Bajac-Carter, Norma Jones, and Bob Batchelor.

Publication

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bajac-Carter, Maja, 1979-
• Jones, Norma, 1972-
• Batchelor, Bob

Description

xiv, 260 pages; 24 cm

Subjects

• Women in literature
• Women in mass media
• Heroines in literature
• Women in popular culture
• Comic books, strips, etc > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Literature. To heck with the village : fantastic heroines, journey and return / Sandra J. Lindow ; From duckling to swan : what makes a twilight heroine strong / Tricia Clasen ; Salem's daughters : witchcraft, justice, and the heroine in popular culture / Lauren Lemley ; Heroine : Christina of Markyate / K. A. Laity ; The bohemian gypsy, another body to sell : deciphering Esmeralda in popular culture / Adina Scheeweis ; Writing women in war : speaking through, about, and for female soldiers in Iraq / Christina M. Smith -- Exotic, foreign, familiar, and queer. The borderland construction of Latin America and Latina heroines in contemporary visual media / Mauricio Espinoza ; Janissary : an Orientalist heroine or a role model for Muslim women? / Itir Erhart and Hande Eslen-Ziya ; Representations of motherhood in X-Men / Christopher Paul Wagenheim ; Negotiating life spaces : how marriage marginalized Storm / Anita McDaniel ; The mother of all superheroes : idealizations of femininity in Wonder Woman / Sharon Zechowski and Caryn E. Neumann ; Wonder Woman : lesbian or dyke? : Paradise Island as a woman's community / Trina Robbins ; Homicidal lesbian terrorists to crimson caped crusaders : how folk and mainstream lesbian heroes queer cultural space / AprilJo Murphy -- Contemporary American graphic novels/comics. Punching holes in the sky : Carol Danvers and the potential of superheroinism / Nathan Miczo ; Jumping rope naked : John Byrne, metafiction, and the comics code / Roy Cook ; Invisible, tiny, and distant : the powers and roles of Marvel's early female superheroes / Joseph Darowski ; Heroines aplenty, but none my mother would know : Marvel's lack of an iconic superheroine / T. Keith Edmunds ; Liminality and capitalism in Spider-Woman and Wonder Woman : how to make stronger (i.e. male) two super powerful women / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns ; Empowerment as transgression : the rise and fall of the Black Cat in Kevin Smith's The Evil That Men Do / Michael R. Kramer.

Call Number

JFE 14-4791

ISBN

• 9781442231474 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1442231475 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2013040490

OCLC

860825752

Title

Heroines of Comic Books and Literature : Portrayals in Popular Culture / edited by Maja Bajac-Carter, Norma Jones, and Bob Batchelor.

Publisher

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Bajac-Carter, Maja, 1979- editor.

Jones, Norma, 1972- editor.

Batchelor, Bob, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 14-4791