Love, Sex, Gender, and Superheroes / / Jeffrey A. Brown.
Impossibly muscular men and voluptuous women parade around in revealing, skintight outfits, and their romantic and sexual entanglements are a key part of the ongoing drama. Such is the state of superhero comics and movies, a genre that has become one of our leading mythologies, conveying influential...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2021] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (230 p.) :; 40 color images, 1 table |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Signifying Love, Sex, and Gender
- 1 The Visible and the Invisible
- 2 Women Dark and Dangerous
- 3 Secrets of the Batcave
- 4 Marriage, Domesticity, and Superheroes (for Better or Worse)
- 5 It Starts with a Kiss
- 6 Even an Android Has Feelings
- 7 Super Fluidity
- 8 KRAKK! WHACK! SMACK!
- 9 Pleasure, Pain, Climaxes, and Little Deaths
- Conclusion: Love, Sex, Gender, and Superheroes in Real Life
- References
- Index
- About the Author