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Acknowledgements; Figures; Introducing... The Mighty Women of Marvel!; Comics on Screen: What is at Stake in Representing Marvel Women?; The (Super)Power of Feminist Film Studies; We're In This Together Now: Mediating Womanhood through Postfeminist Culture; NOTES; 1: 'You have a knack for saving my life!': Wives, Girlfriends and Women in Refrigerators in Marvel Films; Damsels in Distress and Women in Refrigerators across Media; Women in Refrigerators in Marvel Film Adaptations; 2: Pepper Potts and Gwenn Stacy: Recuperating the Superhero Girlfriend; Iron (Wo)Man; The Amazing Gwen Stacy; 3: With Great Power Comes Great Frustration? Configurations of Hero(ine)ism in Marvel Films Superheroines and Postfeminist Media Culture; With Great Power Comes Great Frustration; 4: Playing Superheroine: Feminine Subjectivity and (Postfeminist) Masquerade; 'I Want You to Be the Best Version of Yourself': Postfeminist Masquerade and Subjectivity in Captain Marvel; 5: Marvel Legacy: Girl Heroism and Intergenerationality and in Marvel Films; Interconnected Womanhood in Elektra; All-New, All-Different: The Legacy of Wolverine in Logan; 6: Mad With Power: Female Villainy in Marvel Films; Wicked Witches and Poisonous Women; Disease, Toxicity and Poison in Marvel's Evil Women; Make Asgard Great Again: Villainy and the Feminine Spectre of White Supremacy in Thor: Ragnarok (2017); 7: Mutants, Cyborgs and Femininity Unfixed? Addressing the Gendered Bodies of Mystique and Nebula; Fluid Gender and the Politics of the X-Men Films; The Strangest Superhero of All: Nebula's Cyborg Subjectivity; 8: Disrupting the Rainbow Bridge: Dysfunctional Heterosexuality and Reinforcing Gender Difference in Marvel Adaptations; Dysfunctional Heterosexuality in Marvel Films; 9: Black Skin, Blue Skin: Race and Femininity in Marvel Films The Politics of 'Diversity' in Marvel Properties; 10: The (Afro)Future of a Diverse Marvel: Gender, Race and Empire in Thor: Ragnarok and Black Panther; Asgard as a People-Racial Ambiguity in Thor: Ragnarok's Heroines; Wakanda Forever: Black Femininity and the (Afro)Future; Afterword: Some Concluding Remarks on Marvel Women... Thus Far!; Bibliography; Filmography. |
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