Description: Further DetailsTitle: Vigilante Feminists and Agents of DestinyCondition: NewSubtitle: Violence, Empowerment, and the Teenage Super/heroineISBN-10: 1793630623EAN: 9781793630629ISBN: 9781793630629Publisher: Lexington BooksFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 08/24/2022Description: This interdisciplinary study examines the relationship between violence, empowerment, and the teenage super/heroine in comics and young adult fantasy novels. The author analyzes stories of teenage super/heroines who have experienced trauma, abduction, assault, and sexual violence that has led to a loss of agency, and then tracks the way that their use of violence empowers them to reclaim agency over their lives and bodies. The author identifies these characters as vigilante feminist teenage super/heroines because they become vigilantes in order to protect other girls and young women from violence and create safer communities. The teenage super/heroines examined in this book are characters who have the ability—through super power, or supernatural and magical ability—to fight back against those who seek to cause them harm. They are a product of and a response to both the pervasive culture of violence against girls and women and a system that fails to protect girls and women from harm. While this book is part of a robust intellectual conversation about the role of girls and women in popular literature and culture and about feminist analyses of comics and YA literature, it is unique in its reading of violence as empowerment and in its careful tracing—and naming—of the teenage vigilante super/heroine, a characterization that is hugely popular and deserves this close reading.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 230mmItem Length: 151mmItem Width: 13mmItem Weight: 263gAuthor: Laura Mattoon D'AmoreGenre: Society & CultureBook Series: Children and Youth in Popular CultureTopic: Gender Sex & Relationships, Social SciencesRelease Year: 2022 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Vigilante Feminists and Agents of Destiny
Title: Vigilante Feminists and Agents of Destiny
Subtitle: Violence, Empowerment, and the Teenage Super/heroine
ISBN-10: 1793630623
EAN: 9781793630629
ISBN: 9781793630629
Release Date: 08/24/2022
Release Year: 2022
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences
Number of Pages: 176 Pages
Publication Name: Vigilante Feminists and Agents of Destiny : Violence, Empowerment, and the Teenage Super/Heroine
Language: English
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Publication Year: 2022
Item Height: 0.5 in
Subject: Feminism & Feminist Theory, Children's Studies, Gender Studies, Popular Culture, Women's Studies
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 9.3 Oz
Subject Area: Social Science
Author: Laura Mattoon D'amore
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Children and Youth in Popular Culture Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
