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Superwomen: Gender, Power, and Representation

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Over the last 75 years, superheroes have been portrayed most frequently as male, heterosexual, white, and in a position-bodied. Today, a time when many of these characters are billion-dollar global commodities, there are more female superheroes, more queer superheroes, more superheroes of color, and more disabled superheroes–but not many more.

Superwomen investigates how and why female superhero characters have turn out to be more a large number of but are still not-at-all close to parity with their male counterparts; how and why they’ve turn out to be a flashpoint for struggles over gender, sexuality, race, and disability; what has changed through the years and why in the case of how these characters have been written, drawn, marketed, purchased, read, and reacted to; and how and why representations of superheroes matter, particularly to historically underrepresented and stereotyped groups.

Specifically, the book explores the production, representations, and receptions of prominent transmedia female superheroes from their creation to the present: Wonder Woman; Batgirl and Oracle; Ms. Marvel and Captain Marvel; Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Star Wars‘ Padmé Amidala, Leia Organa, Jaina Solo, and Rey; and X-Men’s Jean Grey, Storm, Kitty Pryde, Rogue, and Mystique. It analyzes their changing portrayals in comics, novels, tv shows, and films, in addition to how cultural narratives of gender have been negotiated through female superheroes by creators, consumers, and parent companies during the last several decades.

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