Vigilante Feminists and Agents of Destiny - Violence, Empowerment, and the Teenage Super/heroine

This book tracks the vigilante feminist teenage super/heroine in comics and YA literature, a character who acts as a vigilante on behalf of the protection of girls and women. It traces the trajectory of super/heroines who experience violent trauma and are subsequently empowered by use of violence to reclaim control over their lives and bodies.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Finding Agency after Trauma: Crafting a Community of Consent in Sarah J. Maas' Young Adult Series A Court of Thorns and Roses
Chapter Two: "Choice is Your Weapon": Violence, Empowerment, and X-23's Journey Toward Consent and Agency
Chapter Three: Hunting Wolves: Violence, Agency, and Empowerment in Jackson Pearce's Retold Fairytales Young Adult Fantasy Series
Chapter Four: "I Know How to Do Things Most People Don't": Rape and Vigilante Justice on a College Campus in MTV's Sweet/Vicious
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

By Laura Mattoon D'Amore

Product details

• Authors: Laura Mattoon D'Amore, Laura Mattoon D''amore, D'Amore Laura Mattoon
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9781793630605
• ISBN: 978-1-79363-060-5
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Children and Youth in Popular Culture
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Feminism & feminist theory, Gender studies, gender groups, Gender studies: women, Age groups: children, Gender studies: women & girls