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Hot Pants and Spandex Suits

Esther De Dauw
Hot Pants and Spandex Suits Book PDF

Author : Esther De Dauw
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781978806054

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Hot Pants and Spandex Suits by Esther De Dauw Pdf

The superheroes from DC and Marvel comics are some of the most iconic characters in popular culture today. But how do these figures idealize certain gender roles, body types, sexualities, and racial identities at the expense of others? Hot Pants and Spandex Suits offers a far-reaching look at how masculinity and femininity have been represented in American superhero comics, from the Golden and Silver Ages to the Modern Age. Scholar Esther De Dauw contrasts the bulletproof and musclebound phallic bodies of classic male heroes like Superman, Captain America, and Iron Man with the figures of female counterparts like Wonder Woman and Supergirl, who are drawn as superhumanly flexible and plastic. It also examines the genre’s ambivalent treatment of LGBTQ representation, from the presentation of gay male heroes Wiccan and Hulkling as a model minority couple to the troubling association of Batwoman’s lesbianism with monstrosity. Finally, it explores the intersection between gender and race through case studies of heroes like Luke Cage, Storm, and Ms. Marvel. Hot Pants and Spandex Suits is a fascinating and thought-provoking consideration of what superhero comics teach us about identity, embodiment, and sexuality.

Hot Pants and Spandex Suits

Esther De Dauw
Hot Pants and Spandex Suits Book PDF

Author : Esther De Dauw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 197880606X

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Hot Pants and Spandex Suits by Esther De Dauw Pdf

The superheroes from DC and Marvel comics are some of the most iconic characters in popular culture today. But how do these figures idealize certain gender roles, body types, sexualities, and racial identities at the expense of others? Hot Pants and Spandex Suits offers a far-reaching look at how masculinity and femininity have been represented in American superhero comics, from the Golden and Silver Ages to the Modern Age. Scholar Esther De Dauw contrasts the bulletproof and musclebound phallic bodies of classic male heroes like Superman, Captain America, and Iron Man with the figures of female counterparts like Wonder Woman and Supergirl, who are drawn as superhumanly flexible and plastic. It also examines the genre's ambivalent treatment of LGBTQ representation, from the presentation of gay male heroes Wiccan and Hulkling as a model minority couple to the troubling association of Batwoman's lesbianism with monstrosity. Finally, it explores the intersection between gender and race through case studies of heroes like Luke Cage, Storm, and Ms. Marvel. Hot Pants and Spandex Suits is a fascinating and thought-provoking consideration of what superhero comics teach us about identity, embodiment, and sexuality.

Hot Pants and Spandex Suits

Esther De Dauw
Hot Pants and Spandex Suits Book PDF

Author : Esther De Dauw
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781978806030

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Hot Pants and Spandex Suits by Esther De Dauw Pdf

Taking a critical look at the gender presentation of DC and Marvel superheroes like Superman, Captain America, Batwoman, Luke Cage, and Storm, Hot Pants and Spandex Suits is a thought-provoking consideration of what superhero comics teach us about identity, embodiment, and sexuality.

Supersex

Anna Peppard
Supersex Book PDF

Author : Anna Peppard
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477321607

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Supersex by Anna Peppard Pdf

From Superman, created in 1938, to the transmedia DC and Marvel universes of today, superheroes have always been sexy. And their sexiness has always been controversial, inspiring censorship and moral panic. Yet though it has inspired jokes and innuendos, accusations of moral depravity, and sporadic academic discourse, the topic of superhero sexuality is like superhero sexuality itself—seemingly obvious yet conspicuously absent. Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero is the first scholarly book specifically devoted to unpacking the superhero genre’s complicated relationship with sexuality. Exploring sexual themes and imagery within mainstream comic books, television shows, and films as well as independent and explicitly pornographic productions catering to various orientations and kinks, Supersex offers a fresh—and lascivious—perspective on the superhero genre’s historical and contemporary popularity. Across fourteen essays touching on Superman, Batman, the X-Men, and many others, Anna F. Peppard and her contributors present superhero sexuality as both dangerously exciting and excitingly dangerous, encapsulating the superhero genre’s worst impulses and its most productively rebellious ones. Supersex argues that sex is at the heart of our fascination with superheroes, even—and sometimes especially—when the capes and tights stay on.

Twelve-Cent Archie

Bart Beaty
Twelve Cent Archie Book PDF

Author : Bart Beaty
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813563862

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Twelve-Cent Archie by Bart Beaty Pdf

For over seventy-five years, Archie and the gang at Riverdale High have been America’s most iconic teenagers, delighting generations of readers with their never-ending exploits. But despite their ubiquity, Archie comics have been relatively ignored by scholars—until now. Twelve-Cent Archie is not only the first scholarly study of the Archie comic, it is an innovative creative work in its own right. Inspired by Archie’s own concise storytelling format, renowned comics scholar Bart Beaty divides the book into a hundred short chapters, each devoted to a different aspect of the Archie comics. Fans of the comics will be thrilled to read in-depth examinations of their favorite characters and motifs, including individual chapters devoted to Jughead’s hat and Archie’s sweater-vest. But the book also has plenty to interest newcomers to Riverdale, as it recounts the behind-the-scenes history of the comics and analyzes how Archie helped shape our images of the American teenager. As he employs a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches, Beaty reveals that the Archie comics themselves were far more eclectic, creative, and self-aware than most critics recognize. Equally comfortable considering everything from the representation of racial diversity to the semiotics of Veronica’s haircut, Twelve-Cent Archie gives a fresh appreciation for America’s most endearing group of teenagers.

Toxic Masculinity

Esther De Dauw,Daniel J. Connell
Toxic Masculinity Book PDF

Author : Esther De Dauw,Daniel J. Connell
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496828958

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Toxic Masculinity by Esther De Dauw,Daniel J. Connell Pdf

Contributions by Daniel J. Connell, Esther De Dauw, Craig Haslop, Drew Murphy, Richard Reynolds, Janne Salminen, Karen Sugrue, and James C. Taylor The superhero permeates popular culture from comic books to film and television to internet memes, merchandise, and street art. Toxic Masculinity: Mapping the Monstrous in Our Heroes asks what kind of men these heroes are and if they are worthy of the unbalanced amount of attention. Contributors to the volume investigate how the (super)hero in popular culture conveys messages about heroism and masculinity, considering the social implications of this narrative within a cultural (re)production of dominant, hegemonic values and the possibility of subaltern ideas, norms, and values to be imagined within that (re)production. Divided into three sections, the volume takes an interdisciplinary approach, positioning the impact of hypermasculinity on toxic masculinity and the vilification of “other” identities through such mediums as film, TV, and print comic book literature. The first part, “Understanding Super Men,” analyzes hegemonic masculinity and the spectrum of hypermasculinity through comics, television, and film, while the second part, “The Monstrous Other,” focuses on queer identity and femininity in these same mediums. The final section, “Strategies of Resistance,” offers criticism and solutions to the existing lack of diversity through targeted studies on the performance of gender. Ultimately, the volume identifies the ways in which superhero narratives have promulgated and glorified toxic masculinity and offers alternative strategies to consider how characters can resist the hegemonic model and productively demonstrate new masculinities.

Unstable Masks

Sean Guynes,Martin Lund
Unstable Masks Book PDF

Author : Sean Guynes,Martin Lund
Publisher : New Suns: Race, Gender, and Se
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0814255639

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Unstable Masks by Sean Guynes,Martin Lund Pdf

Contextualizes the history of race within comic books and the unspoken whiteness that overwhelms American superhero narratives.

Superheroes

Andrew Bolton,Michael Chabon
Superheroes Book PDF

Author : Andrew Bolton,Michael Chabon
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fashion design
ISBN : 0300136706

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Superheroes by Andrew Bolton,Michael Chabon Pdf

Essay af Michael Chabon: Secret Skin. An Essay in Unitard Theory

Yes, Daddy

Jonathan Parks-Ramage
Yes Daddy Book PDF

Author : Jonathan Parks-Ramage
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780358447719

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Yes, Daddy by Jonathan Parks-Ramage Pdf

A propulsive, scorching modern gothic, Yes, Daddy follows an ambitious young man who is lured by an older, successful playwright into a dizzying world of wealth and an idyllic Hamptons home where things take a nightmarish turn.

Race and Retail

Mia Bay,Ann Fabian
Race and Retail Book PDF

Author : Mia Bay,Ann Fabian
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780813571720

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Race and Retail by Mia Bay,Ann Fabian Pdf

Race has long shaped shopping experiences for many Americans. Retail exchanges and establishments have made headlines as flashpoints for conflict not only between blacks and whites, but also between whites, Mexicans, Asian Americans, and a wide variety of other ethnic groups, who have at times found themselves unwelcome at white-owned businesses. Race and Retail documents the extent to which retail establishments, both past and present, have often catered to specific ethnic and racial groups. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the original essays collected here explore selling and buying practices of nonwhite populations around the world and the barriers that shape these habits, such as racial discrimination, food deserts, and gentrification. The contributors highlight more contemporary issues by raising questions about how race informs business owners’ ideas about consumer demand, resulting in substandard quality and higher prices for minorities than in predominantly white neighborhoods. In a wide-ranging exploration of the subject, they also address revitalization and gentrification in South Korean and Latino neighborhoods in California, Arab and Turkish coffeehouses and hookah lounges in South Paterson, New Jersey, and tourist capoeira consumption in Brazil. Race and Retail illuminates the complex play of forces at work in racialized retail markets and the everyday impact of those forces on minority consumers. The essays demonstrate how past practice remains in force in subtle and not-so-subtle ways.

Food Across Borders

Matt Garcia,E. Melanie DuPuis,Don Mitchell
Food Across Borders Book PDF

Author : Matt Garcia,E. Melanie DuPuis,Don Mitchell
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780813592008

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Food Across Borders by Matt Garcia,E. Melanie DuPuis,Don Mitchell Pdf

The act of eating defines and redefines borders. What constitutes “American” in our cuisine has always depended on a liberal crossing of borders, from “the line in the sand” that separates Mexico and the United States, to the grassland boundary with Canada, to the imagined divide in our collective minds between “our” food and “their” food. Immigrant workers have introduced new cuisines and ways of cooking that force the nation to question the boundaries between “us” and “them.” The stories told in Food Across Borders highlight the contiguity between the intimate decisions we make as individuals concerning what we eat and the social and geopolitical processes we enact to secure nourishment, territory, and belonging. Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University..

Our Caribbean Kin

Alaí Reyes-Santos
Our Caribbean Kin Book PDF

Author : Alaí Reyes-Santos
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813572024

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Our Caribbean Kin by Alaí Reyes-Santos Pdf

Beset by the forces of European colonialism, US imperialism, and neoliberalism, the people of the Antilles have had good reasons to band together politically and economically, yet not all Dominicans, Haitians, and Puerto Ricans have heeded the calls for collective action. So what has determined whether Antillean solidarity movements fail or succeed? In this comprehensive new study, Alaí Reyes-Santos argues that the crucial factor has been the extent to which Dominicans, Haitians, and Puerto Ricans imagine each other as kin. Our Caribbean Kin considers three key moments in the region’s history: the nineteenth century, when the antillanismo movement sought to throw off the yoke of colonial occupation; the 1930s, at the height of the region’s struggles with US imperialism; and the past thirty years, as neoliberal economic and social policies have encroached upon the islands. At each moment, the book demonstrates, specific tropes of brotherhood, marriage, and lineage have been mobilized to construct political kinship among Antilleans, while racist and xenophobic discourses have made it difficult for them to imagine themselves as part of one big family. Recognizing the wide array of contexts in which Antilleans learn to affirm or deny kinship, Reyes-Santos draws from a vast archive of media, including everything from canonical novels to political tracts, historical newspapers to online forums, sociological texts to local jokes. Along the way, she uncovers the conflicts, secrets, and internal hierarchies that characterize kin relations among Antilleans, but she also discovers how they have used notions of kinship to create cohesion across differences.

The Pro

Garth Ennis
The Pro Book PDF

Author : Garth Ennis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 160706555X

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The Pro by Garth Ennis Pdf

Just when you thought Garth Ennis had gone too far, just when you thought it was safe to walk the streets, just when you thought no one would go near the idea of the world's first superhero prostitute... here comes The Pro.

Victorine du Pont

Leonard C. Spitale
Victorine du Pont Book PDF

Author : Leonard C. Spitale
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781644532782

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Victorine du Pont by Leonard C. Spitale Pdf

Victorine Elizabeth du Pont, the first child of Eleuthère Irénée du Pont and his wife Sophie, was seven years old when her family emigrated to America, where her father established the humble beginnings of what would become a corporate giant. Through correspondence with friends and relatives from the ages of eight to sixty-eight, Victorine unwittingly chronicled the first sixty years of the du Pont saga in America. As she recovered from personal tragedy, she became first tutor of her siblings and relations. This biography makes the case that Victorine has had the broadest—and most enduring—influence within the entire du Pont family of any family member. The intellectual heir of her venerable grandfather, Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, although Victorine grew up in an age where women's opportunities were limited, her pioneering efforts in education, medicine, and religion transformed an entire millworkers’ community.

Movement Matters

Katy Bowman
Movement Matters Book PDF

Author : Katy Bowman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1905367775

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Movement Matters by Katy Bowman Pdf

If you could fit our culture of convenience into a petri dish, what would it look like?Movement Matters is a series of essays in which biomechanist Katy Bowman continues to explain the mechanics of a sedentary culture and the deep complexity of the phenomenon we call movement. By exposing convenience as a way of outsourcing movements, Katy's groundbreaking work in the relationship between movement and nature expands to models that have evolved from thinking of the body as a single structure to considering it to be a cluster of a trillion bodies, and how those trillion bodies are being loaded by our habitat and how we move to interact with it.From movement nutrients to forest school to the problems with investigating parts, our culturally conditioned preference to be sedentary is explored from many angles.Thought-provoking, inspiring, and always entertaining, Movement Matters is a collection of essays conducting a deep exploration of movement and its role in science, community, work, and social responsibility. Deftly deconstructing sedentary assumptions that underlie much of our research into human health, Bowman works to reclaim our space in and responsibility to nature and ourselves.With essays on foraging, the nearsightedness epidemic, and the limitations of a parts approach to health, Bowman's gaze is sweeping and incisive, always with the underlying message that moving is powerful and important, and perhaps the most joyful, freeing, and efficient form of activism there is.