Gendered Defenders: Marvel’s Heroines in Transmedia Spaces: New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Editat de Bryan J. Carr, Meta G. Carstarphenen Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 oct 2022
Gendered Defenders: Marvel’s Heroines in Transmedia Spaces delivers dynamic and original analyses of how women perform in super heroic spaces. Contributors from a range of disciplinary perspectives—communications, international relations, cultural and media studies, English, history, and public policy—take on Marvel’s representations of women and gender to examine how relations of power are (re)produced, understood, and challenged. Through vivid retellings of character-based scenarios, these essays examine Carol Danvers, Jessica Jones, Ms. Marvel, Shuri, Pepper Potts, Black Widow, and Squirrel Girl across media forms to characterize and critique contemporary understandings of identity, feminism, power, and gender. Collectively, Gendered Defenders challenges notions about female identity while illuminating the multidimensional portrayals that are enabled by the form of speculative fiction. Making explicit the connections between women’s lived experiences and the imagined exploits of superheroines, contributors explore how these pop culture narratives can help us understand real-world gender dynamics and prepare pedagogical, political, and social strategies for dealing with them. Contributors: Bryan J. Carr, Meta G. Carstarphen, Julie A. Davis, Rachel Grant, Annika Hagley, Amanda K. Kerhberg, Gregory P. Perreault, Mildred F. Perreault, CarrieLynn D. Reinhard, Maryanne A. Rhett, Stephanie L. Sanders, J. Richard Stevens, Anna C. Turner, Kathleen M. Turner-Ledgerwood, Robert Westerfelhaus
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780814258521
ISBN-10: 0814258522
Pagini: 214
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Ohio State University Press
Seria New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
ISBN-10: 0814258522
Pagini: 214
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Ohio State University Press
Seria New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Recenzii
“Gendered Defenders is an insightful collection of essays analyzing several Marvel transmedia texts featuring superheroines to understand the ways that gender, power, and other intersectional paradigms are constructed, problematized, and reimagined through the genre. This book will benefit scholars across a variety of disciplines, particularly those interested in media studies, popular culture, intercultural communication, discourse analysis, and rhetoric.” —Amika Starr, Women’s Studies in Communication
“[Gendered Defenders] cuts across disciplines to shed light on the journey of our Marvel heroines. Through its interdisciplinary lens discussing a range of social and cultural issues, transmedia approach, and the economic curvature of an empire as gigantic as Marvel, the book brings forth a dedicated selection of articles.” —Richa Tewari, Journal of Popular Culture
“We need a book like this to help navigate the meaning of some of the most prominent representations of female heroism. Gendered Defenders is a valuable stepping-stone for future post-feminist and queer perspectives on these same characters.” —Terrence Wandtke, author of The Meaning of Superhero Comic Books
"A well-rounded and critically worthwhile collection. The individual chapters work extremely well together thematically, and tackle the lack of gender diversity in Marvel’s universe with such different and specific topics that each one truly stands out and provides new context to the issue. Altogether, Gendered Defenders is, thus, a valuable resource for Marvel fans and scholars alike." —Myers Enlow, European Journal of American Culture
"[Gendered Defenders] is a fascinating study at the crossroads of an underexplored area of pop culture, feminism, and diversity. It is well suited for graduate studies related to literary criticism, pop culture, gender studies, and fandom." —Sara Kitsch, H-Net
Notă biografică
Bryan J. Carr is Associate Professor of Women & Gender Studies at University of Wisconsin–Green Bay. Meta G. Carstarphen is Endowed Professor of Strategic Communication at Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Oklahoma.
Extras
To delve into the issue of how Marvel both shapes and reflects outside culture, and to determine the academic and social value of superheroines, this book investigates some of the most unique and powerful superpowered women throughout the near-century-long publishing history of the company as well as its more contemporary and globalized transmedia efforts. Across the book’s chapters, we hope to offer context for and answers to address the paradox of why Marvel and other companies that stand to benefit from embracing female audiences seem to hold them at arm’s length.
More than this, however, this book has at its core this thesis: the evolution of Marvel’s female characters mirrors the development, struggles, and triumphs of women in the real world. More than perhaps any other superhero company, Marvel has at the center of its mission the charge of representing a version of our world drenched in the fantastic—its heroes operate primarily out of the real city of New York, address social and political issues, mourn when we mourn and celebrate when we celebrate. Superheroes and superheroines are a means of reconstructing and redeveloping cultural and mythological languages, but they are the product of human creators influenced by the cultural contexts in which they operate. Therefore, the standards and language of our mythic heroes change as we change, and these characters bear with them the standards of culture as they are ported from one global market to another.
Objectively determining the most popular and relevant characters is ultimately difficult in such a subjective creative medium, and undoubtedly the reader will have their own suggestions about characters who were left out. However, we have given our authors freedom to investigate the characters that speak most to them and their research interests and offer a unique and important lens through which we can interrogate larger issues about feminism and gender roles in the real world. Above all else, these characters help tell the story of a culture—and an archetype—that has changed over time.
The opening chapter by Bryan J. Carr attempts to quickly explain how Marvel’s approach to female characters and readers has changed over the years in ways both progressive and regressive, and Meta G. Carstarphen explores how these stories reflect the need for a new trans/linear approach to feminism.
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In the end, our goal in this book is to ask what Marvel’s superheroines can teach us about our culture (popular and otherwise) and how these teachings reflect the real lived experiences of women. We also wish to provide a means through which we can go beyond the surface-level readings of superhero texts to explore the complex subtextual power relationships behind them. We hope with this volume to provide a work that stands at the intersection of the complex constellation of womanhood. In doing so, we invoke mythological, practical, social, feminist, and rhetorical perspectives, hoping that they can collectively shape and inspire larger discussions and investigations.
More than this, however, this book has at its core this thesis: the evolution of Marvel’s female characters mirrors the development, struggles, and triumphs of women in the real world. More than perhaps any other superhero company, Marvel has at the center of its mission the charge of representing a version of our world drenched in the fantastic—its heroes operate primarily out of the real city of New York, address social and political issues, mourn when we mourn and celebrate when we celebrate. Superheroes and superheroines are a means of reconstructing and redeveloping cultural and mythological languages, but they are the product of human creators influenced by the cultural contexts in which they operate. Therefore, the standards and language of our mythic heroes change as we change, and these characters bear with them the standards of culture as they are ported from one global market to another.
Objectively determining the most popular and relevant characters is ultimately difficult in such a subjective creative medium, and undoubtedly the reader will have their own suggestions about characters who were left out. However, we have given our authors freedom to investigate the characters that speak most to them and their research interests and offer a unique and important lens through which we can interrogate larger issues about feminism and gender roles in the real world. Above all else, these characters help tell the story of a culture—and an archetype—that has changed over time.
The opening chapter by Bryan J. Carr attempts to quickly explain how Marvel’s approach to female characters and readers has changed over the years in ways both progressive and regressive, and Meta G. Carstarphen explores how these stories reflect the need for a new trans/linear approach to feminism.
...
In the end, our goal in this book is to ask what Marvel’s superheroines can teach us about our culture (popular and otherwise) and how these teachings reflect the real lived experiences of women. We also wish to provide a means through which we can go beyond the surface-level readings of superhero texts to explore the complex subtextual power relationships behind them. We hope with this volume to provide a work that stands at the intersection of the complex constellation of womanhood. In doing so, we invoke mythological, practical, social, feminist, and rhetorical perspectives, hoping that they can collectively shape and inspire larger discussions and investigations.
Cuprins
Part 1 Introduction: Framing Our Starting Places and Conceptual Origins Chapter 1 Who Has Power, and How Do We Read It? Chapter 2 Too Long a Boys’ Club: The Superhero Industrial Complex and the Marvel Heroine Chapter 3 Trans/Linear Feminism: Finding a New Space to Call Home Part 2 Phenomenal Women: Gender and Feminism Chapter 4 Marvel’s Carol Danvers: Evolving Past the Second-Wave Feminist Icon Chapter 5 “I Know My Value”: The Standpoint Evolution of Agent Carter as a Transmedia and Transgenerational Feminist Chapter 6 Jessica Jones: A Superhero, Unadorned Part 3 Embodied Power: Otherness, the Body, and the Superheroine Chapter 7 “Don’t Scare Me Like That, Colonizer!”: Black Panther’s Shuri through a Postcolonial Feminist Lens Chapter 8 Kamala Khan / Ms. Marvel, Islamic Feminism, and a Global Dialogue Chapter 9 “Misty” Knight: Dialogue with a Black Pearl in the Ivory Tower Part 4 Answering the Call: Marvel Superheroines as Responses to Cultural Change Chapter 10 Part of the Team yet Always Apart: Black Widow through Multiple Marvel Series Chapter 11 Pepper Potts: Performance as Partner, Professional, CEO, and Superhero Chapter 12 Eating Nuts, Kicking Butts, and Becoming a Feminist Icon: Squirrel Girl’s Subversion, Commodification, and Fractured Feminist Nature Chapter 13 Symptoms or Resistance? The Feminist Trauma Theory Framework in Captain Marvel
Descriere
Analyzes Marvel superheroines such as Carol Danvers, Ms. Marvel, Shuri, Black Widow, and Squirrel Girl across media formats to understand and critique real-world gender dynamics.