Monstrous women in comics:

"Monsters 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 definit...

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Corporate Author: Monstrous Women in Comics (Veranstaltung) Denton, Tex (Author)
Other Authors: Langsdale, Samantha ca. 20/21. Jahrhundert (Editor), Coody, Elizabeth Rae ca. 20./21. Jahrhundert (Editor)
Format: Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson University Press of Mississippi 2020
Series:Horror and monstrosity studies series
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Summary:"Monsters 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"--
"A critical volume on the ways women are made monstrous in popular culture"--
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x,285 Seiten)
ISBN:9781496827678
9781496827647
9781496827654
9781496827661

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