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Vigilante Feminists and Agents of Destiny - Violence, Empowerment, and the Teenage Super/heroine (Hardcover)
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Vigilante Feminists and Agents of Destiny - Violence, Empowerment, and the Teenage Super/heroine (Hardcover)
Series: Children and Youth in Popular Culture
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This interdisciplinary study examines the relationship between
violence, empowerment, and the teenage super/heroine in comics and
young adult fantasy novels. The author analyzes stories of teenage
super/heroines who have experienced trauma, abduction, assault, and
sexual violence that has led to a loss of agency, and then tracks
the way that their use of violence empowers them to reclaim agency
over their lives and bodies. The author identifies these characters
as vigilante feminist teenage super/heroines because they become
vigilantes in order to protect other girls and young women from
violence and create safer communities. The teenage super/heroines
examined in this book are characters who have the ability-through
super power, or supernatural and magical ability-to fight back
against those who seek to cause them harm. They are a product of
and a response to both the pervasive culture of violence against
girls and women and a system that fails to protect girls and women
from harm. While this book is part of a robust intellectual
conversation about the role of girls and women in popular
literature and culture and about feminist analyses of comics and YA
literature, it is unique in its reading of violence as empowerment
and in its careful tracing-and naming-of the teenage vigilante
super/heroine, a characterization that is hugely popular and
deserves this close reading.
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