Michael Goodrum, Oxford, United Kingdom, is senior lecturer
in modern history at Canterbury Christ Church University. He is
author of Superheroes and American Self Image: From War to
Watergate and coeditor of ""Firefly"" Revisited: Essays on Joss
Whedon's Classic Series.
Tara Prescott, Los Angeles, California, is lecturer and
faculty in residence at the University of California, Los Angeles.
She is author of Poetic Salvage: Reading Mina Loy; editor of Neil
Gaiman in the 21st Century: Essays on the Novels, Children's
Stories, Online Writings, Comics and Other Works; and coeditor of
Feminism in the Worlds of Neil Gaiman: Essays on the Comics, Poetry
and Prose.
Philip Smith, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, is assistant
professor in the School of English Studies at the University of the
Bahamas. He is author of Reading Art Spiegelman and coeditor of
""Firefly"" Revisited: Essays on Joss Whedon's Classic Series.
Highly recommended.--A. Ellis, Northern Kentucky University
"CHOICE"
This compilation provides an engaging introduction to central
issues regarding how female superheroes address representations of
equality, justice, and female empowerment that are absent in law
and in government policies. The collection addresses the conception
of the female superhero narrative that not only resists
institutionalized systems of oppression (including comics
production and marketing and the entertainment industry) but also
asks consumers and creators to question and push our ideas and
definitions of who and what comprises a superhero.--Shilpa Davé
"Gender & Society"
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