The Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History by Mike Madrid

By Mike Madrid

The Supergirls is a protracted past due tribute to the excellent combating women whose attractiveness and bravado brighten the pages of your favourite comics.”—STAN LEE

“A considerate, entire heritage of ladies in comics . . . The Supergirls gleefully celebrates the medium itself, in all its goofy, wonderful excess.” —NPR “Best 5 Books To proportion together with your Friends” citation

“Sharp and lively—and simply obsessive sufficient approximately girls who put on capes and boots to be cool yet now not creepy. [Madrid] essentially loves these things. And he's adequate of a historian with a view to hint the ways that the portrayal of sirens and supergirls has echoed society's ever-changing emotions approximately ladies and sex.” —Entertainment Weekly

Has ask yourself lady hit the comedian e-book glass ceiling? Is that the only competition that even her Amazonian power can’t defeat? interesting and informative, The Supergirls explores iconic superheroines and what it ability for the tradition after they do every little thing the superhero does, simply in thongs and excessive heels.

This much-needed substitute heritage of yankee comedian ebook icons—from ask yourself girl to Supergirl and beyond—delves into the place those crime-fighting women slot in pop culture and why, and what their tales say concerning the function of girls in society from their construction to now, and into the future.

Mike Madrid is the writer of Divas, Dames & Daredevils: misplaced Heroines of Golden Age Comics (forthcoming from Exterminating Angel Press in October 2013) and The Supergirls: model, Feminism, delusion, and the background of comedian e-book Heroines, an NPR “Best publication To proportion along with your Friends” and American Library organization Amelia Bloomer undertaking amazing publication. Madrid, a San Francisco local and lifetime fan of comedian books and pop culture, additionally seems within the documentary Wonder girls! The Untold tale of yankee Superheroines.

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