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Hot Pants and Spandex Suits: Gender Representation in American Superhero Comic Books

English

By (author): Esther De Dauw

The superheroes from DC and Marvel comics are some of the most iconic characters in popular culture today. But how do these figures idealize certain gender roles, body types, sexualities, and racial identities at the expense of others?
 
Hot Pants and Spandex Suits offers a far-reaching look at how masculinity and femininity have been represented in American superhero comics, from the Golden and Silver Ages to the Modern Age. Scholar Esther De Dauw contrasts the bulletproof and musclebound phallic bodies of classic male heroes like Superman, Captain America, and Iron Man with the figures of female counterparts like Wonder Woman and Supergirl, who are drawn as superhumanly flexible and plastic. It also examines the genres ambivalent treatment of LGBTQ representation, from the presentation of gay male heroes Wiccan and Hulkling as a model minority couple to the troubling association of Batwomans lesbianism with monstrosity. Finally, it explores the intersection between gender and race through case studies of heroes like Luke Cage, Storm, and Ms. Marvel.
 
Hot Pants and Spandex Suits is a fascinating and thought-provoking consideration of what superhero comics teach us about identity, embodiment, and sexuality. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 3g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Jan 2021
  • Publisher: Rutgers University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781978806030

About Esther De Dauw

ESTHER DE DAUW is a Leicester UK based comics scholar who works on superheroes gender and race. She has published in The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics contributed a chapter to the edited volume Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics and was the primary editor for the collection Toxic Masculinity: Mapping the Monstrous in our Heroes.  

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