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1 online resource (x, 177 pages) : illustrations |
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Interdisciplinary research in gender |
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Interdisciplinary research in gender.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Drawn to and from gender -- what it means to read comics through a feminist lens / Sandra Cox -- Racialized heroes and sexualized villains. On the fringes and tassels of respectability : Catwoman and censoring the femme form / A. Luxx Mishou -- Queer, Latina, and punching Nazis : a new America breaking borders / Ande Davis -- Contested adaptations : legacies of orientalism, she-heroes and Hollywood's diversity aesthetic / Michael Rinehard -- Unweaving the world : militant eco-feminism in the anti-fairy tale Beautiful darkness / Shane Gomes -- National histories and personal autographies. Drawn into being : the transformative voices of Native American and First Nations women in comics and visual narratives / Nicole Dib -- Comics and gendered subjectivity : the multifaceted truth of Alison Bechdel's graphic memoirs / Cody Shrum -- Love, lust and lucre in Leela Corman's Unterzakhn / Alex Link |
| Summary |
"Intersectional Feminist Readings of Comics collects several theoretically informed close reading of comics and graphic literature that apply an intersectional feminist lens to the interpretation of several contemporary North American graphic narratives. The essays use a range of interpretive lenses drawn from theoretical models used in contemporary aesthetics, media studies, and literary criticism to analyze mainstream figures like DC's Catwoman and Marvel's Miss America and Doctor Strange, to contextualize historical and speculative comics by Indigenous American illustrators, and to explicate autography by critically lauded Jewish, queer and female cartoonists. In the first half of the book, the chapters examine ways in which superhero comics and the cinematic and televisual adaptations thereof, reify, revise and reject gender parity, systemic misogyny and heteropatriarchy through visual and textual rhetorics of representation. In the second part of the volume, the chapters look at the ways that feminist interpretive practices illuminate the radical work undertaken by cartoonists from historically marginalized communities in the U.S. and Canada. Across both halves, readers will find applications of longstanding feminist critical traditions, like ecofeminism, as well as new intersectional extrapolations of narratology, autobiographical studies, and visual rhetoric, which have been applied to the selected comics in insightful and innovative ways. This is a lively and varied collection suitable for students and scholars in gender studies, cultural studies, media studies and literary studies"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Sandra Cox is an Assistant Professor of English at Southeast Missouri State University, where she teaches courses in American literature by writers from historically marginalized communities. She holds a doctorate in literary studies from the University of Kansas (2011). Her first monograph, entitledAn Ethics of Reading, was published in 2015. Dr. Cox has written articles on comics published inThe Journal of Comics and Graphic Novelsand twice inWatchung Reviewand articles on feminist literary criticism published in the journalsAssuming Gender,Postcolonial Interventions,Parlour,Red Feather, and[Inter]sections.She has also contributed chapters on visual media and/orgender studies to the following edited collections, includingWhere is Adaptation(2018),Weaving the Legacy: Remembering Paula Gunn Allen(2017),andBodies and Culture: Discourses, Communities, Representations(2012) |
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Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed September 20, 2021) |
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Comic books, strips, etc. -- United States -- History and criticism
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Motion pictures and comic books.
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Superhero films -- United States -- History and criticism
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Women in comics.
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Sex role in comics.
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Women in motion pictures.
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Sex role in motion pictures.
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Feminist theory.
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Women in literature.
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Sex role in literature.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
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Comic books, strips, etc.
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Feminist theory
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Motion pictures and comic books
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Sex role in literature
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Sex role in motion pictures
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Superhero films
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Women in literature
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Women in motion pictures
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism
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Literary criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cox, Sandra, Ph. D., editor.
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| LC no. |
2021012607 |
| ISBN |
9781003146520 |
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100314652X |
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9781000437041 |
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1000437043 |
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1000437108 |
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9781000437102 |
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