The Woman Fantastic in Contemporary American Media Culture
Elyce Rae Helford, Shiloh Carroll, Sarah Gray, and Michael R. II Howard
Abstract
In chapters devoted to individual television programs, adult and young adult literature, and comics, the authors collected in The Woman Fantastic in Contemporary American Media Culture discuss feminist negotiation of today’s economic and social realities through the image of the fantastic female. Senior scholars and rising academic stars address figures from Wonder Woman and She-Hulk to Talia Al Ghul and Martha Washington; from Battlestar Gallactica’s female Starbuck to Game of Thrones’ Sansa; and from Carrie Vaughn’s Kitty Norville to Cinda Williams Chima’s The Seven Realms.
Keywords:
Media,
Feminism,
Superhero(es),
Gender Studies,
Fantasy
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781496808714 |
| Published to University Press of Mississippi: September 2018 |
DOI:10.14325/mississippi/9781496808714.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Elyce Rae Helford, editor
Middle Tennessee State University
Shiloh Carroll, editor
Tennessee State University
Sarah Gray, editor
Langston University
Michael R. II Howard, editor
Langston University
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