Contributions by Novia Shih-Shan Chen, Elizabeth Rae Coody, Keri
Crist-Wagner, Sara Durazo-DeMoss, Charlotte Johanne Fabricius,
Ayanni C. Hanna, Christina M. Knopf, Tomoko Kuribayashi, Samantha
Langsdale, Jeannie Ludlow, Marcela Murillo, Sho Ogawa, Pauline J.
Reynolds, Stefanie Snider, J. Richard Stevens, Justin Wigard,
Daniel F. Yezbick, and Jing ZhangMonsters seem to be everywhere
these days, in popular shows on television, in award-winning
novels, and again and again in Hollywood blockbusters. They are
figures that lurk in the margins and so, by contrast, help to
illuminate the center - the embodiment of abnormality that summons
the definition of normalcy by virtue of everything they are not.
Samantha Langsdale and Elizabeth Rae Coody's edited volume explores
the coding of woman as monstrous and how the monster as dangerously
evocative of women/femininity/the female is exacerbated by the
intersection of gender with sexuality, race, nationality, and
disability. To analyze monstrous women is not only to examine
comics, but also to witness how those constructions correspond to
women's real material experiences. Each section takes a critical
look at the cultural context surrounding varied monstrous voices:
embodiment, maternity, childhood, power, and performance. Featured
are essays on such comics as Faith, Monstress, Bitch Planet, and
Batgirl and such characters as Harley Quinn and Wonder Woman. This
volume probes into the patriarchal contexts wherein men are assumed
to be representative of the normative, universal subject, such that
women frequently become monsters.
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