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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Rewriting to Control: How the Origins of Harley Quinn, Wonder Woman, and Mary Magdalene Matter to Women’s Perceived Power
- 2 Exploring the Monstrous Feminist Frame: Marvel’s She-Hulk as Male-Centric Postfeminist Discourse
- 3 “There Is More to Me Than Just Hunger”: Female Monsters and Liminal Spaces in <i>Monstress</i> and <i>Pretty Deadly</i>
- 4 The (Un)Remarkable Fatness of Valiant’s Faith
- 5 New and Improved? Disability and Monstrosity in Gail Simone’s <i>Batgirl</i>
- 6 Horrible Victorians: Interrogating Power, Sex, and Gender in <i>InSEXts</i>
- 7 Kicking Ass in Flip-Flops: Inappropriate/d Generations and Monstrous Pregnancy in Comics Narratives
- 8 The Monstrous Portrayal of the Maternal Bolivian Chola in Contemporary Comics
- 9 The Monstrous “Mother” in Moto Hagio’s <i>Marginal</i>: The Posthuman, the Human, and the Bioengineered Uterus
- 10 SeDUCKtress! Magica De Spell, Scrooge McDuck, and the Avuncular Anthropomorphism of Carl Barks’s Midcentury Disney Comics
- 11 On the Edge of 1990s Japan: Kyoko Okazaki and the Horror of Adolescence
- 12 Chinese Snake Woman Resurfaces in Comics: Considering the Case Study of <i>Calabash Brothers</i>
- 13 Monochromatic Teats, Teeth, and Tentacles: Monstrous Visual Rhetoric in Stephen L. Stern and Christopher Steininger’s <i>Beowulf: The Graphic Novel</i>
- 14 Beauty and Her B(r)east(s): Monstrosity and College Women in <i>The Jaguar</i>
- 15 UFO (Unusual Female Other) Sightings in <i>Saucer Country/State</i>: Metaphors of Identity and Presidential Politics
- About the Contributors
- Index
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- Source:
- Monstrous Women in Comics
- Author(s):
- Samantha Langsdale, Elizabeth Rae Coody
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Rewriting to Control: How the Origins of Harley Quinn, Wonder Woman, and Mary Magdalene Matter to Women’s Perceived Power
- 2 Exploring the Monstrous Feminist Frame: Marvel’s She-Hulk as Male-Centric Postfeminist Discourse
- 3 “There Is More to Me Than Just Hunger”: Female Monsters and Liminal Spaces in <i>Monstress</i> and <i>Pretty Deadly</i>
- 4 The (Un)Remarkable Fatness of Valiant’s Faith
- 5 New and Improved? Disability and Monstrosity in Gail Simone’s <i>Batgirl</i>
- 6 Horrible Victorians: Interrogating Power, Sex, and Gender in <i>InSEXts</i>
- 7 Kicking Ass in Flip-Flops: Inappropriate/d Generations and Monstrous Pregnancy in Comics Narratives
- 8 The Monstrous Portrayal of the Maternal Bolivian Chola in Contemporary Comics
- 9 The Monstrous “Mother” in Moto Hagio’s <i>Marginal</i>: The Posthuman, the Human, and the Bioengineered Uterus
- 10 SeDUCKtress! Magica De Spell, Scrooge McDuck, and the Avuncular Anthropomorphism of Carl Barks’s Midcentury Disney Comics
- 11 On the Edge of 1990s Japan: Kyoko Okazaki and the Horror of Adolescence
- 12 Chinese Snake Woman Resurfaces in Comics: Considering the Case Study of <i>Calabash Brothers</i>
- 13 Monochromatic Teats, Teeth, and Tentacles: Monstrous Visual Rhetoric in Stephen L. Stern and Christopher Steininger’s <i>Beowulf: The Graphic Novel</i>
- 14 Beauty and Her B(r)east(s): Monstrosity and College Women in <i>The Jaguar</i>
- 15 UFO (Unusual Female Other) Sightings in <i>Saucer Country/State</i>: Metaphors of Identity and Presidential Politics
- About the Contributors
- Index
