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Supersex : sexuality, fantasy, and the superhero / edited by Anna F. Peppard.

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"Despite the frequently form-fitting costumes and prominent secondary sex characteristics, superhero sexuality has rarely been discussed seriously. Besides homoerotic accusations directed at Batman & Robin and Wonder Woman in the '50s and Larry Niven's seminal essay "Man of S...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Peppard, Anna F. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
Series:World comics and graphic nonfiction series.
Subjects:
Comic books, strips, etc. > United States > History and criticism.
Superheroes.
Superhero films > History and criticism.
Superhero television programs > History and criticism.
Sex in literature.
Sex in motion pictures.
Sex on television.
Comic books, strips, etc.
Superhero films.
Superhero television programs.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Introduction. Presence and Absence in Theory and Practice: Locating Supersex (Anna F. Peppard)
  • Part I. Comics
  • 1. TarpeĢ Mills's Miss Fury: Costume, Sexuality, and Power (Richard Reynolds)
  • 2. Superman Family Values: Supersex in the Silver Age (Matt Yockey)
  • 3. A Storm of Passion: Sexual Agency and Symbolic Capital in the X-Men's Storm (J. Andrew Deman)
  • 4. Dazzler, Melodrama, and Shame: Mutant Allegory, Closeted Readers (Brian Johnson)
  • 5. "Super-Gay" Gay Comix: Tracing the Underground Origins and Cultural Resonances of LGBTQ Superheroes (Sarah Panuska)
  • 6. Parents, Counterpublics, and Sexual Identity in Young Avengers (Keith Friedlander)
  • Part II. Film, Television, and Fan Culture
  • 7. X-Men Films and the Domestication of Dissent: Sexuality, Race, and Respectability (Christopher B. Zeichmann)
  • 8. Over the Rainbow Bridge: Female/Queer Sexuality in Marvel's Thor Film Trilogy (Samantha Langsdale)
  • 9. "No One's Going to Be Looking at Your Face": The Female Gaze and the New (Super)Man in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (Anna F. Peppard)
  • 10. The Visible and the Invisible: Superheroes, Pornography, and Phallic Masculinity (Jeffrey A. Brown)
  • 11. "I Think That's My Favorite Weapon in the Whole Batcave": Interrogating the Subversions of Men.com's Gay Superhero Porn Parodies (Joseph Brennan)
  • 12. "That's Pussy Babe!": Queering Supergirl's Confessions of Power (Olivia Hicks)
  • 13. Meet Stephanie Rogers, Captain America: Genderbending the Body Politic in Fan Art, Fiction, and Cosplay (Anne Kustritz)
  • Epilogue: The Matter with Size (Richard Harrison)
  • Contributors
  • Index

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