The Supergirls
Subtitle: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines
By: Mike Madrid
Edition: Revised & updated edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9781935259336
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Women heroes in art; Feminism in literature; Heroines in literature; Women superheroes; History and criticism; Comic strip characters; Comic books, strips
Description: Comic book superheroines bend steel, travel across time and space, and wield the mighty forces of nature. These powerful females do everything that male heroes do. But they have to work their wonders in skirts and high heels. The Supergirls, a cultural history of comic book  heroines, asks whether their world of fantasy is that different from our own. Are the stories of Wonder Woman's search for an identity or Batwoman's battle for equality also an alternative saga of the American woman?
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Author's note; title: Introduction to the new edition; title: Goddesses of tomorrow; title: 1940s: a secret life; title: The queen & the princess; title: 1950s: the girlfriends; title: Supergirl and the ballad of American youth; title: 1960s: the modern world; title: Girls together (outrageously); title: 1970s: sirens & suffragettes; title: Wonder Woman's extreme makeovers; title: 1980s: the dark road; title: Sex and the single superheroine; title: 1990s: the babe years; title: Heroine chic; title: 2000 and beyond: mother love?