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Autore: | Madrid Mike |
Titolo: | The supergirls : fashion, feminism, fantasy, and the history of comic book heroines / / Mike Madrid |
Pubblicazione: | [Place of publication not identified] : , : Exterminating Angel Press, , 2016 |
©2016 | |
Edizione: | Revised & updated edition. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (196 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina: | 741.5/973 |
Soggetto topico: | Comic books, strips, etc - United States - History and criticism |
Women superheroes | |
Heroines in literature | |
Women heroes in art | |
Feminism in literature | |
Comic strip characters | |
Soggetto geografico: | United States |
Note generali: | Includes index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Author's note -- Introduction to the new edition -- Goddesses of tomorrow -- 1940s: a secret life -- The queen & the princess -- 1950s: the girlfriends -- Supergirl and the ballad of American youth -- 1960s: the modern world -- Girls together (outrageously) -- 1970s: sirens & suffragettes -- Wonder Woman's extreme makeovers -- 1980s: the dark road -- Sex and the single superheroine -- 1990s: the babe years -- Heroine chic -- 2000 and beyond: mother love? |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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? |
Titolo autorizzato: | The supergirls |
ISBN: | 9781935259336 |
9781935259350 (e-book) | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910164882503321 |
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