Winner of the 2017 Eisner Award in the Best Academic/Scholarly Work
category 2017 Prose Awards Honorable Mention, Media & Cultural
Studies Over the last 75 years, superheroes have been portrayed
most often as male, heterosexual, white, and able-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 become more numerous but are still
not-at-all close to parity with their male counterparts; how and
why they have become a flashpoint for struggles over gender,
sexuality, race, and disability; what has changed over time and why
in terms 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' Padme 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, television shows, and films, as well as how
cultural narratives of gender have been negotiated through female
superheroes by creators, consumers, and parent companies over the
last several decades.
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