The Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines by Mike Madrid

The Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines

Mike Madrid

334 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction feminism adventurous slow-paced
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A much-needed alternative history of American comic book superheroines—from Wonder Woman to Supergirl and beyond—where they fit in popular culture and why, and what these crime-fighting females say about the role of women in American society from ...

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