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Comic book superheroines bend steel, travel across time and space, and wield the mighty forces of nature. These powerful females do everything that male heroes do. But they have to work their wonders in skirts and high heels. The Supergirls, a cultural history of comic book heroines, asks whether their world of fantasy is that different from our own. Are the stories of Wonder Woman's search for an identity or Batwoman's battle for equality also an alternative saga of the American woman?
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History, Nonfiction, Gay & Lesbian, Comics & graphic novels, Comic books, strips, Literary, Historical Fiction, Anthologies, Literature, Crime & Mystery, Contemporary Women, Fine Arts, Horror, History and criticism, Fantasy, Heroines in literature, Erotica, Women heroes in art, Comic strip characters, Feminism in literature, Women superheroes, Comics & graphic novels, generalPlaces
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The Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines
2016
in English
- Revised & updated edition.
1935259334 9781935259336
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The Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines
2009, Exterminating Angel Press
in English
1935259032 9781935259039
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The Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines
2009, Exterminating Angel Press
eBook
in English
1935259008 9781935259008
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A much-needed alternative history of American comic book superheroines—from Wonder Woman to Supergirl and beyond—where they fit in popular culture and why, and what these crime-fighting females say about the role of women in American society from their creation to now, and into the future. The Supergirls is an entertaining and informative look at these modern-day icons, exploring how superheroines fare in American comics, and what it means for the culture when they do everything the superhero does, but in thongs and high heels.
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