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Carr, Bryan J. and Meta G. Carstarphen, eds. Gendered Defenders: Marvel’s Heroines in Transmedia Spaces. New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press, 2022. 
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Resource type: Book
Language: en: English
ID no. (ISBN etc.): 978-0-8142-1527-2
BibTeX citation key: Carr2022
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Keywords: Adaptation, Collection of essays, Gender, Marvel, Superhero, USA
Creators: Carr, Carstarphen
Publisher: Ohio State Univ. Press (Columbus)		 Views: 148/232
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Abstract
Gendered Defenders: Marvel’s Heroines in Transmedia Spaces delivers dynamic and original analyses of how women perform in super heroic spaces. Contributors from a range of disciplinary perspectives—communications, international relations, cultural and media studies, English, history, and public policy—take on Marvel’s representations of women and gender to examine how relations of power are (re)produced, understood, and challenged. Through vivid retellings of character-based scenarios, these essays examine Carol Danvers, Jessica Jones, Ms. Marvel, Shuri, Pepper Potts, Black Widow, and Squirrel Girl across media forms to characterize and critique contemporary understandings of identity, feminism, power, and gender.
Collectively, Gendered Defenders challenges notions about female identity while illuminating the multidimensional portrayals that are enabled by the form of speculative fiction. Making explicit the connections between women’s lived experiences and the imagined exploits of superheroines, contributors explore how these pop culture narratives can help us understand real-world gender dynamics and prepare pedagogical, political, and social strategies for dealing with them.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Part I: Introduction: Framing Our Starting Places and Conceptual Origins
Chapter 1: Who Has Power, and How Do We Read It? (Bryan J. Carr and Meta G. Carstarphen)
Chapter 2: Too Long a Boys’ Club: The Superhero Industrial Complex and the Marvel Heroine (Bryan J. Carr)
Chapter 3: Trans/Linear Feminism: Finding a New Space to Call Home (Meta G. Carstarphen)

Part II: Phenomenal Women: Gender and Feminism
Chapter 4: Marvel’s Carol Danvers: Evolving Past the Second-Wave Feminist Icon (J. Richard Stevens and Anna C. Turner)
Chapter 5: “I Know My Value”: The Standpoint Evolution of Agent Carter as a Transmedia and Transgenerational Feminist (Kathleen M. Turner-Ledgerwood)
Chapter 6: Jessica Jones: A Superhero, Unadorned (Amanda K. Kehrberg)

Part III: Embodied Power: Otherness, the Body, and the Superheroine
Chapter 7: “Don’t Scare Me Like That, Colonizer!”: Black Panther’s Shuri through a Postcolonial Feminist Lens (Rachel Grant)
Chapter 8: Kamala Khan / Ms. Marvel, Islamic Feminism, and a Global Dialogue (Maryanne A. Rhett)
Chapter 9: “Misty” Knight: Dialogue with a Black Pearl in the Ivory Tower (Stephanie L. Sanders)

Part IV: Answering the Call: Marvel Superheroines as Responses to Cultural Change
Chapter 10: Part of the Team Yet Always Apart: Black Widow through Multiple Marvel Series (Julie A. Davis and Robert Westerfelhaus)
Chapter 11: Pepper Potts: Performance as Partner, Professional, CEO, and Superhero (Mildred F. Perreault and Gregory P. Perreault)
Chapter 12: Eating Nuts, Kicking Butts, and Becoming a Feminist Icon: Squirrel Girl’s Subversion, Commodification, and Fractured Feminist Nature (CarrieLynn D. Reinhard)
Chapter 13: Symptoms or Resistance? The Feminist Trauma Theory Framework in Captain Marvel (Annika Hagley)

List of Contributors
Index


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