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Literature : To heck with the village: fantastic heroines, journey and return / Sandra J. Lindow ; From duckling to swan: what makes a Twilight heroine strong / Tricia Clasen ; Salem's daughters: witchcraft, justice, and the heroine in popular culture / Lauren Lemley ; Heroine: Christina of Markyate / K. A. Laity ; The bohemian gypsy, another body to sell: deciphering Esmeralda in popular culture / Adina Scheewis ; Writing women in war: speaking through, about, and for female soldiers in Iraq / Christina M. Smith -- Exotic, foreign, familiar, and queer : The borderland construction of Latin America and Latina heroines in contemporary visual media / Mauricio Espinoza ; Janissary: an Orientalist heroine or a role model for Muslim women? / Itir Erhart and Hande Eslen-Ziya ; Representations of motherhood in X-Men / Christopher Paul Wagenheim ; Negotiating life spaces: how marriage marginalized Storm / Anita McDaniel ; The mother of all superheroes: idealizations of femininity in Wonder Woman / Sharon Zechowski and Caryn E. Neumann ; Wonder Woman: lesbian or dyke?: Paradise Island as a woman's community / Trina Robbins ; Homicidal lesbian terrorists to crimson caped crusaders: how folk and mainstread lesbian heroes queer cultural space / AprilJo Murphy -- Contemporary American graphic novels/comic : Punching holes in the sky: Carol Danvers and the potential of superheroinism / Nathan Miczo ; Jumping rope naked: John Byrne, metafiction, and the comics code / Roy Cook ; Invisible, tiny, and distant the powers and roles of Marvel's early female superheroes / Joseph Darowski ; Heroines aplenty, but none my mother would know: Marvel's lack of an iconic superheroine / T. Keith Edmunds ; Liminality and capitalism in Spider-Woman and Wonder Woman: how to make stronger (i.e. male) two super powerful women / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns ; Empowerment as transgression: the rise and fall of the Black Cat in Kevin Smith's The Evil That Men Do / Michael R. Kramer. |
