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Mitchell, Dale. "Paradoxes and patriarchy: A legal reading of She-Hulk." Griffith Law Review 24. (2015): 446–81. Added by: joachim (8/3/20, 11:25 PM) Last edited by: joachim (8/4/20, 12:07 AM) |
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| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.1080/10383441.2015.1087367 BibTeX citation key: Mitchell2015 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "She-Hulk", Gender, Justice, Superhero, USA Creators: Mitchell Collection: Griffith Law Review |
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From Savage to Sensational, from lawyer to hulking beast, from advocate to Avenger and from independent woman to hyper-sexualised feminista – She-Hulk provides a case study in what occurs when ‘great power’ meets the ‘great responsibility’ of the legal professional. This article seeks to fill a gap in the fledgling field of Law and Comics via an analysis of She-Hulk, revealing a character defined by binaries, constructed through real world and imagined patriarchal forces, whose superpowers do not make her immune from the struggles faced by the female voice within the legal system. Yet She-Hulk offers a solution to this exclusion – the realm of the abject, the monstrous, splintering the law to protect her client's interests. She-Hulk reveals that superhero powers are needed to overcome the challenges of feminist lawyering.
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