Superheroes and masculinity : unmasking the gender performance of heroism /
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| Imprint: | Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2020] ©2020 |
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| Description: | vi, 146 pages ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12002541 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The purpose and intent of our project
- Deconstructing the hero-sidekick bromance: Foggy, Kato, and the masculine performance of friendship / Anne Bialowas and Ryan Cheek
- If she be worthy: performance of female masculinty and toxic Greek masculinity in Jason Aaron's Thor: the Goddess of Thunder / Hailey J. Austin
- Witches and witchbreed in Marvel 1602 / Kevin Cummings
- THe Joker's Dionysian philosphy of gender and sexuality in The dark knight / Jacob Murel
- There are different ways of being strong: Steven Universe and devloping a caring superhero masculinity / Julian Barr, David J. Roberts, and Edgar Sandoval
- There must always be a Thor: Marvel's Thor the Goddess of Thunder and the disruption of heroic masculinities / Kiera M. Gaswint
- Poisoning masculinity: Poison Ivy as a counter-narrative of villainy and trauma through representations of queer love in DC's Everyone loves Ivy / T.J. Buttgereit, Emily Mendelson, and J.L. Schatz
- The new Teen Titans for queer boys: emergent masculinities and sentimental superhero melodrama in the 1980s / Brian Johnson.
