Gender and the Superhero Narrative (Paper)

A timely, exciting look at the controversies and changes in the role of gender in comics

Publisher Marketing: This compilation provides an engaging introduction to central issues regarding how female superheroes address representations of equality, justice, and female empowerment that are absent in law and in government policies. The collection addresses the conception of the female superhero narrative that not only resists institutionalized systems of oppression (including comics production and marketing and the entertainment industry) but also asks consumers and creators to question and push our ideas and definitions of who and what comprises a superhero.--Shilpa Davé "Gender & Society" Review Quotes : Highly recommended.--A. Ellis, Northern Kentucky University "CHOICE" Biographical Note : Michael Goodrum is senior lecturer in modern history at Canterbury Christ Church University and the coconvenor of the TORCH Oxford Comics Network. He is author of Superheroes and American Self Image: From War to Watergate and Printing Terror . He is coeditor of " Firefly" Revisited: Essays on Joss Whedon's Classic Series . Tara Prescott-Johnson is lecturer and faculty in residence at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is author of Poetic Salvage: Reading Mina Loy ; editor of Neil Gaiman in the 21st Century: Essays on the Novels, Children's Stories, Online Writings, Comics and Other Works ; and coeditor of Feminism in the Worlds of Neil Gaiman: Essays on the Comics, Poetry and Prose. Philip Smith is professor of English at Savannah College of Art and Design. He is author of Reading Art Spiegelman and Shakespeare in Singapore . He is coeditor of " Firefly" Revisited: Essays on Joss Whedon's Classic Series and The Search for Understanding: Elie Wiesel's Literary Works. Publisher Marketing :

Format: Paperback | Pages: 320 | Publication Date: 2018-08-16