Ebook445 pages12 hours
Monstrous Women in Comics
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
About this ebook
Contributions by Novia Shih-Shan Chen, Elizabeth Rae Coody, Keri Crist-Wagner, Sara Durazo-DeMoss, Charlotte Johanne Fabricius, Ayanni C. Hanna, Christina M. Knopf, Tomoko Kuribayashi, Samantha Langsdale, Jeannie Ludlow, Marcela Murillo, Sho Ogawa, Pauline J. Reynolds, Stefanie Snider, J. Richard Stevens, Justin Wigard, Daniel F. Yezbick, and Jing Zhang
Monsters seem to be everywhere these days, in popular shows on television, in award-winning novels, and again and again in Hollywood blockbusters. They are figures that lurk in the margins and so, by contrast, help to illuminate the center—the embodiment of abnormality that summons the definition of normalcy by virtue of everything they are not.
Samantha Langsdale and Elizabeth Rae Coody’s edited volume explores the coding of woman as monstrous and how the monster as dangerously evocative of women/femininity/the female is exacerbated by the intersection of gender with sexuality, race, nationality, and disability. To analyze monstrous women is not only to examine comics, but also to witness how those constructions correspond to women’s real material experiences.
Each section takes a critical look at the cultural context surrounding varied monstrous voices: embodiment, maternity, childhood, power, and performance. Featured are essays on such comics as Faith, Monstress, Bitch Planet, and Batgirl and such characters as Harley Quinn and Wonder Woman.
This volume probes into the patriarchal contexts wherein men are assumed to be representative of the normative, universal subject, such that women frequently become monsters.
Monsters seem to be everywhere these days, in popular shows on television, in award-winning novels, and again and again in Hollywood blockbusters. They are figures that lurk in the margins and so, by contrast, help to illuminate the center—the embodiment of abnormality that summons the definition of normalcy by virtue of everything they are not.
Samantha Langsdale and Elizabeth Rae Coody’s edited volume explores the coding of woman as monstrous and how the monster as dangerously evocative of women/femininity/the female is exacerbated by the intersection of gender with sexuality, race, nationality, and disability. To analyze monstrous women is not only to examine comics, but also to witness how those constructions correspond to women’s real material experiences.
Each section takes a critical look at the cultural context surrounding varied monstrous voices: embodiment, maternity, childhood, power, and performance. Featured are essays on such comics as Faith, Monstress, Bitch Planet, and Batgirl and such characters as Harley Quinn and Wonder Woman.
This volume probes into the patriarchal contexts wherein men are assumed to be representative of the normative, universal subject, such that women frequently become monsters.
Related to Monstrous Women in Comics
Related ebooks
After Midnight: Watchmen after Watchmen Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMapping Fairy-Tale Space: Pastiche and Metafiction in Borderless Tales Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBitch Planet: Triple Feature Vol. 1 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Man-Eaters Vol. 2 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Gothic for Girls: Misty and British Comics Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSurgeon X Vol. 1: The Path Of Most Resistance Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlack Static #46 Horror Magazine (May - Jun 2015) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Phonogram The Immaterial Girl Vol.3 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDracula, Motherf**ker! Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJeff Lemire: Conversations Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStray Bullets: Sunshine & Roses Vol. 3 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 61 (June 2015 - Queers Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJesusfreak Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlack Static #56 (January-February 2017) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Man-Eaters Vol. 3 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsScoundrels Among Us: Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGrass Kings #3 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBitch Planet Vol. 2: President Bitch Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Grass Kings Vol. 3 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGreen Monk: Blood Of Martyrs Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDesire After Dark: Contemporary Queer Cultures and Occultly Marvelous Media Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Dark Issue 56: The Dark, #56 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPhonogram Vol. 1: Rue Britannia Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWitchblade 20th Anniversary "Art Of" HC Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Stray Bullets: Sunshine & Roses Vol. 4 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMan-Eaters, Vol. 1 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bloodstrike: Brutalists Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Curse Words: The Hole Damned Thing Omnibus Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Literary Criticism For You
Killers of the Flower Moon: by David Grann | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The 48 Laws of Power: by Robert Greene | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/512 Rules For Life: by Jordan Peterson | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Reader’s Companion to J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5As I Lay Dying Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Court of Thorns and Roses: A Novel by Sarah J. Maas | Conversation Starters Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Man's Search for Meaning: by Viktor E. Frankl | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Book of Virtues Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Between the World and Me: by Ta-Nehisi Coates | Conversation Starters Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Circe: by Madeline Miller | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of Seduction: by Robert Greene | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Great Alone: by Kristin Hannah | Conversation Starters Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5SUMMARY Of The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in Healthy Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Letters to a Young Poet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Speed Reading: How to Read a Book a Day - Simple Tricks to Explode Your Reading Speed and Comprehension Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain | Conversation Starters Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The Power of Habit: by Charles Duhigg | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5One Hundred Years of Solitude: A Novel by Gabriel Garcia Márquez | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Monstrous Women in Comics
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
Monstrous Women in Comics - Samantha Langsdale
TOa book_preview_excerpt.html }rGDk6Y7(")Qb8e"2<0?L-~`lj;Nd9G͘u@ }>t_ ]}ӟO_놭w&\+o7öz|u +?~8>Vza룯VOZ]0TMW~l]_K:Vms+be^md#;?~݅nVsܵWT]o\W}ՙl2o>?3y ̇Hczml֟=\Eer]M]v>j-竷M'3jq[Jh.هvj=v+J>#zۦV9;]U
Eլdf}?0'vc7Klog?T1ԍ-ae^kX]{6/>#tmLhd'Ռ͆;v yjoNCWM?r ӅTK~?U2HKk~={0C߇_&GVMClVr}cl^`1
n^(B>_ [pW/Wz j>á+E^a
ݝ)ӗ~I^5AWr6-AD0aĿn"yh-zDp{a9T<ٻJ^Ԅ|7h2WD_H=;Q՝/ǸQJYM {_7k= r
kK7~0Z%E~lr JPǘj X?}O~ɯ $]*D5?跮X|{>$ȟ(6X7&gc|)B%"ԺYjKQ* \,0/ShS&ʷE|X:\pI1UJ (;
VH}zYwQ9UWTM4wbrbVGC
) 2nQ,(>_'ݡsv7!ݠiQ74H+:ْNبZx-{ZUU7}22wrmDAc"B9Sw
u
kDHE}H"H+9ʀs-arCC 쁐qҭd].ufw}ݎ+('nM@ҩծDTw<o]v$|-Ll,{a
E(?12a}
_679X%J0v"0N!AR*߉Ы#j!Px
ha՚PDH>e;m@^rbj5㠀F>+bA !T
Ζ Q1s[