Bibliographische Detailangaben
Beteiligte: Langsdale, Samantha, Coody, Elizabeth Rae
veröffentlicht:
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2020.
©2020.
Teil von: Horror and Monstrosity Studies Series
Medientyp: Buch, E-Book

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Umfang: 1 online resource (292 pages)
ISBN: 9781496827678
Ausgabe: 1st ed.
Sprache: Englisch
Teil von: Horror and Monstrosity Studies Series
Schlagwörter:
Print version:: Langsdale, Samantha, Monstrous Women in Comics, Jackson : University Press of Mississippi,c2020
Kollektion: E-Books adlr
Inhaltsangabe

A critical volume on the ways women are made monstrous in popular culture.

Cover
Monstrous Women in Comics
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: The Origins, Agency, and Paradoxes of Monstrous Women
1 Rewriting to Control: How the Origins of Harley Quinn, Wonder Woman, and Mary Magdalene Matter to Women's Perceived Power
2 Exploring the Monstrous Feminist Frame: Marvel's She-Hulk as Male-Centric Postfeminist Discourse
3 "There Is More to Me Than Just Hunger": Female Monsters and Liminal Spaces in Monstress and Pretty Deadly
Part 2: The Body as Monstrous
4 The (Un)Remarkable Fatness of Valiant's Faith
5 New and Improved? Disability and Monstrosity in Gail Simone's Batgirl
6 Horrible Victorians: Interrogating Power, Sex, and Gender in InSEXts
Part 3: Childbearing as Monstrous
7 Kicking Ass in Flip-Flops: Inappropriate/d Generations and Monstrous Pregnancy in Comics Narratives
8 The Monstrous Portrayal of the Maternal Bolivian Chola in Contemporary Comics
9 The Monstrous "Mother" in Moto Hagio's Marginal: The Posthuman, the Human, and the Bioengineered Uterus
Part 4: Monsters of Childhood
10 SeDUCKtress! Magica De Spell, Scrooge McDuck, and the Avuncular Anthropomorphism of Carl Barks's Midcentury Disney Comics
11 On the Edge of 1990s Japan: Kyoko Okazaki and the Horror of Adolescence
12 Chinese Snake Woman Resurfaces in Comics: Considering the Case Study of Calabash Brothers
Part 5: Taking On the Role of Monster
13 Monochromatic Teats, Teeth, and Tentacles: Monstrous Visual Rhetoric in Stephen L. Stern and Christopher Steininger's Beowulf: The Graphic Novel
14 Beauty and Her B(r)east(s): Monstrosity and College Women in The Jaguar
15 UFO (Unusual Female Other) Sightings in Saucer Country/State: Metaphors of Identity and Presidential Politics
About the Contributors.