Super-Girls of the Future
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Super-Girls of the Future

Girlhood and Agency in Contemporary Superhero Comics

  1. 180 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Super-Girls of the Future

Girlhood and Agency in Contemporary Superhero Comics

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About This Book

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 reconsidering representations of gender and power in the superhero genre. This book offers the term agentic embodiment as an analytical tool for critiquing the body politics of superhero comics, particularly concerning youth, femininity, whiteness, and violence. Grounded in comics studies and informed by feminist cultural studies, the book contributes a critical and hopeful perspective on the diversification of a genre often written off as irredeemably conservative and patriarchal.

Super-Girls of the Future is a key title for students and scholars of comics studies, visual culture, US popular culture, and feminist criticism.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2023
ISBN
9781000967623
Edition
1
Topic
Scienze sociali
Subtopic
Studi di genere

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction: Here Come the Girls
  10. 1 The Age of the Girl
  11. 2 Girls Playing Dress-Up
  12. 3 One White Girl, Coming Up
  13. 4 Fight like a Girl
  14. Conclusion: Super-Girls of the Future
  15. Appendix
  16. Index