Super-Girls of the Future - Girlhood and Agency in Contemporary Superhero Comics

This volume investigates girl superheroes published by DC and Marvel Comics in the first two decades of the twenty-first century, asking who the new and improved super-girls are and what potentials they hold for imagining girls as agents of change, in the genre as well as its socio-cultural context.

List of contents

Introduction: Here Come the Girls
Chapter One: The Age of the Girl
Chapter Two: Girls Playing Dress-Up
Chapter Three: One White Girl, Coming Up
Chapter Four: Fight Like a Girl
Conclusion: Super-Girls of the Future
Appendix
Index

About the author

Charlotte J. Fabricius is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Southern Denmark. Her research emerges from the intersection of comics studies, cultural studies, and feminist critique. She has published work on the body politics of superhero comics and contemporary Scandinavian comics and has work forthcoming on Instagram comics as expressions of feminized labor.

Product details

• Authors: Charlotte J. Fabricius
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.2025
• EAN: 9781032478357
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3247835-7
• No. of pages: 180
• Series: Routledge Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Comics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; History, Sociology, Popular Culture, The arts: general issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Humanities, Gender studies, gender groups, The arts: general topics