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Superheroes and Masculinity examines how heteropatriarchal representations of gender are both perpetuated and challenged within the superhero genre. This collection critiques stereotypical portrayals of hegemonic masculinity and explores queer alternatives to such formulations within superhero comics, film, and television.
List of contents
Chapter One: Deconstructing the Hero-Sidekick Bromance: Foggy, Kato, and the Masculine Performance of Friendship
Ryan Cheek and Anne Bialowas
Chapter Two: If She Be Worthy: Performance of Female Masculinity and Toxic Geek Masculinity in Jason Aaron's Thor: The Goddess of Thunder
Hailey J. Austin
Chapter Three: Witches and Witchbreed in Marvel 1602
Kevin Cummings
Chapter Four: The Joker's Dionysian Philosophy of Gender and Sexuality in The Dark Knight
Jacob Murel
Chapter Five: There are Different Ways of Being Strong: Steven Universe and Developing a Caring Superhero Masculinity
Edgar Sandoval, Julian Barr, and David J. Roberts
Chapter Six: There Must Always be a Thor: Marvel's Thor the Goddess of Thunder and the Disruption of Heroic Masculinities
Kiera M Gaswint and Jeff Brown
Chapter Seven: Poisoning Masculinity: Poison Ivy as a Counter-Narrative of Villainy and Trauma through Representations of Queer Love in DC's Everyone Loves Ivy
TJ Buttgereit, Emily Mendelson, and JL Schatz
Chapter Eight: The New Teen Titans for Queer Boys: Emergent Masculinities and Sentimental Superhero Melodrama in the 1980s
Brian Johnson
About the author
Sean Parson is assistant professor of politics and international affairs at Northern Arizona University. JL Schatz is director of speech and debate at Binghamton University.Sean Parson is assistant professor of politics and international affairs at Northern Arizona University. JL Schatz is director of speech and debate at Binghamton University.
Summary
Superheroes and Masculinity examines how heteropatriarchal representations of gender are both perpetuated and challenged within the superhero genre. This collection critiques stereotypical portrayals of hegemonic masculinity and explores queer alternatives to such formulations within superhero comics, film, and television.
