With examples taken from both the Golden Ages of DC and Marvel comics, as well as more recent superhero comics, films, television, and merchandising, this study provides a comprehensive look at the contradictory messages the superhero genre sends about love, sexuality, and gender.
With examples taken from both the Golden Ages of DC and Marvel comics, as well as more recent superhero comics, films, television, and merchandising, this study provides a comprehensive look at the contradictory messages the superhero genre sends about love, sexuality, and gender.
JEFFREY A. BROWN is a professor in the Department of Popular Culture in the School of Critical and Cultural Studies at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. His many books include The Modern Superhero in Film and Television and Panthers, Hulks and Ironhearts: Marvel, Diversity, and the 21st Century Superhero (Rutgers University Press).
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Introduction: Signifying Love, Sex, and Gender 1 The Visible and the Invisible: Superheroes and Phallic Masculinity 2 Women Dark and Dangerous: Super Femme Fatales and Female Sexuality 3 Secrets of the Batcave: Masculinity and Homosocial Space 4 Marriage, Domesticity, and Superheroes (for Better or Worse) 5 It Starts with a Kiss: Straightening and Queering the Superhero 6 Even an Android Has Feelings: Learning about Love and Robots 7 Super Fluidity: Transing and Transcending Gendered Bodies 8 KRAKK! WHACK! SMACK! Comic Book Violence and Sexual Assault 9 Pleasure, Pain, Climaxes, and Little Deaths Conclusion: Love, Sex, Gender, and Superheroes in Real Life References Index
Introduction: Signifying Love, Sex, and Gender 1 The Visible and the Invisible: Superheroes and Phallic Masculinity 2 Women Dark and Dangerous: Super Femme Fatales and Female Sexuality 3 Secrets of the Batcave: Masculinity and Homosocial Space 4 Marriage, Domesticity, and Superheroes (for Better or Worse) 5 It Starts with a Kiss: Straightening and Queering the Superhero 6 Even an Android Has Feelings: Learning about Love and Robots 7 Super Fluidity: Transing and Transcending Gendered Bodies 8 KRAKK! WHACK! SMACK! Comic Book Violence and Sexual Assault 9 Pleasure, Pain, Climaxes, and Little Deaths Conclusion: Love, Sex, Gender, and Superheroes in Real Life References Index
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