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Comic Book Women
The history of comics has centered almost exclusively on men.
Comics historians largely describe the medium as one built by men
telling tales about male protagonists, neglecting the many ways in
which women fought for legitimacy on the page and in publishers'
studios. Despite this male-dominated focus, women played vital
roles in the early history of comics. The story of how comic books
were born and how they evolved changes dramatically when women like
June Tarpé Mills and Lily Renée are placed at the center rather
than at the margins of this history, and when characters such as
the Black Cat, Patsy Walker, and Señorita Rio are analyzed.
Comic Book Women offers a feminist history of the
golden age of comics, revising our understanding of how numerous
genres emerged and upending narratives of how male auteurs built
their careers. Considering issues of race, gender, and sexuality,
the authors examine crime, horror, jungle, romance, science
fiction, superhero, and Western comics to unpack the cultural and
industrial consequences of how women were represented across a wide
range of titles by publishers like DC, Timely, Fiction House, and
others. This revisionist history reclaims the forgotten work done
by women in the comics industry and reinserts female creators and
characters into the canon of comics history.
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Ovid's Tragic Heroines
Ovid's Tragic Heroines expands
our understanding of Ovid's incorporation of Greek generic codes
and the tragic heroines, Phaedra and Medea, while offering a new
perspective on the Roman poet's persistent interest in these two
characters and their paradigms. Ovid presents these two
Attic tragic heroines as symbols of different passions that are
defined by the specific combination of their gender and generic
provenance. Their failure to be understood and their subsequent
punishment are constructed as the result of their female \"nature,\"
and are generically marked as \"tragic.\" Ovid's masculine poetic
voice, by contrast, is given free rein to oscillate and play with
poetic possibilities.
Jessica A. Westerhold focuses on select passages from the poems
Ars Amatoria , Heroides , and
Metamorphoses . Building on existing scholarship, she
analyzes the dynamic nature of generic categories and codes in
Ovid's poetry, especially the interplay of elegy and epic. Further,
her analysis of Ovid's reception applies the idea of the abject to
elucidate Ovid's process of constructing gender and genre in his
poetry.
Ovid's Tragic Heroines incorporates established
theories of the performativity of sex, gender, and kinship roles to
understand the continued maintenance of the normative and abject
subject positions Ovid's poetry creates. The resulting analysis
reveals how Ovid's Phaedras and Medeas offer alternatives both to
traditional gender roles and to material appropriate to a poem's
genre, ultimately using the tragic code to introduce a new
perspective to epic and elegy.
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Wonder Woman : ambassador of truth
\"Created by William Moulton Marston and introduced at the beginning of America's involvement in World War II, Wonder Woman--the fierce warrior and diplomat armed with bulletproof Bracelets of Victory, a golden tiara, and a Lasso of Truth--has been a pop-culture icon and one of the most enduring symbols of feminism for more than seventy-five years...Signe Bergstrom examines Wonder Woman's diverse media representations from her wartime comic book origins to today's feature films, and explores the impact she has had on women's rights and empowerment and the fight for peace, justice, and equality across the globe.\"-- From the publisher.
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Creating Identity
While the world often categorizes women in reductive
false binaries-careerist versus mother, feminine versus
fierce-romance novels, a unique form of the love story, offer an
imaginative space of mingled alternatives for a heroine on her
journey to selfhood.
In Creating Identity , Jayashree Kamblé examines the
romance genre, with its sensile flexibility in retaining what
audiences find desirable and discarding what is not, by asking an
important question: \"Who is the romance heroine, and what does she
want?\" To find the answer, Kamblé explores how heroines in ten
novels reject societal labels and instead remake themselves on
their own terms with their own agency. Using a truly intersectional
approach, Kamblé combines gender and sexuality, Marxism, critical
race theory, and literary criticism to survey various aspects of
heroines' identities, such as sexuality, gender, work, citizenship,
and race.
Ideal for readers interested in gender studies and literary
criticism, Creating Identity highlights a genre in which
heroines do not accept that independence and strong, loving
relationships are mutually exclusive but instead demand both,
echoing the call from the very readers who have made this genre so
popular.
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Ink-stained amazons and cinematic warriors : superwomen in modern mythology
\"Women have been led to believe that superheroes and heroism are not for them, and that they are little more than love interests, or sidekicks who stand by their supermen. This is a false proposition argues Jennifer K. Stuller, as she uncovers the true history of how superwomen are represented in popular culture. She reveals how, from Wonder Woman to Buffy Summers, Emma Peel to Sydney Brislow, Charlie's Angels to The Powerpuff Girls, the female hero in modern mythology has broken through the boys' club barrier of tradition for shining, if all too brief, moments. The book details the notable differences in how women and men are represented as heroic in modern myth. Love and compassion, spies and sexuality, daddy's girls, and the complicated roles of superwomen who are also mothers are all explored. The spotlight is also turned onto men and women who have created modern myths with a strong female presence and Stuller concludes by speculating on the future of gender representation in superheroic myth. A useful appendix offers resources for further information about feminist fangirl blogging, activism, and fiction, and the book features a glossary of modern mythic women.\"--P. [4] of cover.
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Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine's Journey to Selfhood and Self-Representation
While the world often categorizes women in reductive false binaries-careerist versus mother, feminine versus fierce-romance novels, a unique form of the love story, offer an imaginative space of mingled alternatives for a heroine on her journey to selfhood.In Creating Identity, Jayashree Kamblé examines the romance genre, with its sensile flexibility in retaining what audiences find desirable and discarding what is not, by asking an important question: \"Who is the romance heroine, and what does she want?\" To find the answer, Kamblé explores how heroines in ten novels reject societal labels and instead remake themselves on their own terms with their own agency. Using a truly intersectional approach, Kamblé combines gender and sexuality, Marxism, critical race theory, and literary criticism to survey various aspects of heroines' identities, such as sexuality, gender, work, citizenship, and race. Ideal for readers interested in gender studies and literary criticism, Creating Identity highlights a genre in which heroines do not accept that independence and strong, loving relationships are mutually exclusive but instead demand both, echoing the call from the very readers who have made this genre so popular.
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Socioeconomic Status, Parental Education, School Connectedness and Individual Socio-Cultural Resources in Vulnerability for Drug Use among Students
Background and Aims: Families who live in a disadvantaged socioeconomic situation frequently face substandard housing, unsafe neighborhoods, inadequate schools and more stress in their daily lives than more affluent families, with a host of psychological and developmental consequences that can hinder their children’s development in many ways. However, the measurement of socioeconomic status among youth and its link with different forms of illicit substance use is challenging and still unclear. This paper extends existing research on the relationship between socioeconomic status and illicit drug use among adolescents by focusing on three different patterns of use (experimental, episodic and frequent) and making use of two indicators to improve the measurement of individual socioeconomic characteristics in a big sample of European students. Methods: Data were drawn from the European school Survey Project on Alcohol and other Drugs (ESPAD), which, since 1995, collects comparable data among 15-to-16-year-old students to monitor trends in drug use and other risk behaviors across Europe. The sample comes from 28 countries that participated in the 2015 data collection. The consumption of cannabis, cocaine and heroin are considered, and the related patterns are identified based on the frequency of use. Family characteristics at student level are defined through two dimensions: parental educational level and perceived socioeconomic status. Multivariate multilevel mixed-effects logistic regression was performed in order to measure the association between individual characteristics and vulnerability for drug use. Results: Some patterns of use, episodic and frequent in particular, were found strongly associated with a lower socioeconomic status and lower parental education. Conclusions: Our results suggest that drug policies should be combined with actions aimed at removing barriers to social inclusion that are attributable to the socioeconomic background of adolescents.
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