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4. Dazzler, Melodrama, and Shame: Mutant Allegory, Closeted Readers

  • Brian Johnson
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Supersex
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© 2020 University of Texas Press

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS vii
  3. INTRODUCTION. Presence and Absence in Theory and Practice: Locating Supersex 1
  4. PART I. COMICS
  5. 1. Tarpé Mills’s Miss Fury: Costume, Sexuality, and Power 31
  6. 2. Superman Family Values: Supersex in the Silver Age 57
  7. 3. A Storm of Passion: Sexual Agency and Symbolic Capital in the X-Men’s Storm 79
  8. 4. Dazzler, Melodrama, and Shame: Mutant Allegory, Closeted Readers 103
  9. 5. “Super-Gay” Gay Comix: Tracing the Underground Origins and Cultural Resonances of LGBTQ Superheroes 129
  10. 6. Parents, Counterpublics, and Sexual Identity in Young Avengers 151
  11. PART II. FILM, TELEVISION, AND FAN CULTURE
  12. 7. X-Men Films and the Domestication of Dissent: Sexuality, Race, and Respectability 175
  13. 8. Over the Rainbow Bridge: Female/Queer Sexuality in Marvel’s Thor Film Trilogy 199
  14. 9. “No One’s Going to Be Looking at Your Face”: The Female Gaze and the New (Super)Man in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman 221
  15. 10. The Visible and the Invisible: Superheroes, Pornography, and Phallic Masculinity 245
  16. 11. “I Think That’s My Favorite Weapon in the Whole Batcave”: Interrogating the Subversions of Men.com’s Gay Superhero Porn Parodies 265
  17. 12. “That’s Pussy Babe!”: Queering Supergirl’s Confessions of Power 291
  18. 13. Meet Stephanie Rogers, Captain America: Genderbending the Body Politic in Fan Art, Fiction, and Cosplay 317
  19. EPILOGUE: The Matter with Size 341
  20. CONTRIBUTORS 363
  21. INDEX 367
https://doi.org/10.7560/321607-005

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS vii
  3. INTRODUCTION. Presence and Absence in Theory and Practice: Locating Supersex 1
  4. PART I. COMICS
  5. 1. Tarpé Mills’s Miss Fury: Costume, Sexuality, and Power 31
  6. 2. Superman Family Values: Supersex in the Silver Age 57
  7. 3. A Storm of Passion: Sexual Agency and Symbolic Capital in the X-Men’s Storm 79
  8. 4. Dazzler, Melodrama, and Shame: Mutant Allegory, Closeted Readers 103
  9. 5. “Super-Gay” Gay Comix: Tracing the Underground Origins and Cultural Resonances of LGBTQ Superheroes 129
  10. 6. Parents, Counterpublics, and Sexual Identity in Young Avengers 151
  11. PART II. FILM, TELEVISION, AND FAN CULTURE
  12. 7. X-Men Films and the Domestication of Dissent: Sexuality, Race, and Respectability 175
  13. 8. Over the Rainbow Bridge: Female/Queer Sexuality in Marvel’s Thor Film Trilogy 199
  14. 9. “No One’s Going to Be Looking at Your Face”: The Female Gaze and the New (Super)Man in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman 221
  15. 10. The Visible and the Invisible: Superheroes, Pornography, and Phallic Masculinity 245
  16. 11. “I Think That’s My Favorite Weapon in the Whole Batcave”: Interrogating the Subversions of Men.com’s Gay Superhero Porn Parodies 265
  17. 12. “That’s Pussy Babe!”: Queering Supergirl’s Confessions of Power 291
  18. 13. Meet Stephanie Rogers, Captain America: Genderbending the Body Politic in Fan Art, Fiction, and Cosplay 317
  19. EPILOGUE: The Matter with Size 341
  20. CONTRIBUTORS 363
  21. INDEX 367
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