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Frontmatter
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS vii
- INTRODUCTION. Presence and Absence in Theory and Practice: Locating Supersex 1
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PART I. COMICS
- 1. Tarpé Mills’s Miss Fury: Costume, Sexuality, and Power 31
- 2. Superman Family Values: Supersex in the Silver Age 57
- 3. A Storm of Passion: Sexual Agency and Symbolic Capital in the X-Men’s Storm 79
- 4. Dazzler, Melodrama, and Shame: Mutant Allegory, Closeted Readers 103
- 5. “Super-Gay” Gay Comix: Tracing the Underground Origins and Cultural Resonances of LGBTQ Superheroes 129
- 6. Parents, Counterpublics, and Sexual Identity in Young Avengers 151
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PART II. FILM, TELEVISION, AND FAN CULTURE
- 7. X-Men Films and the Domestication of Dissent: Sexuality, Race, and Respectability 175
- 8. Over the Rainbow Bridge: Female/Queer Sexuality in Marvel’s Thor Film Trilogy 199
- 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
- 10. The Visible and the Invisible: Superheroes, Pornography, and Phallic Masculinity 245
- 11. “I Think That’s My Favorite Weapon in the Whole Batcave”: Interrogating the Subversions of Men.com’s Gay Superhero Porn Parodies 265
- 12. “That’s Pussy Babe!”: Queering Supergirl’s Confessions of Power 291
- 13. Meet Stephanie Rogers, Captain America: Genderbending the Body Politic in Fan Art, Fiction, and Cosplay 317
- EPILOGUE: The Matter with Size 341
- CONTRIBUTORS 363
- INDEX 367
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS vii
- INTRODUCTION. Presence and Absence in Theory and Practice: Locating Supersex 1
-
PART I. COMICS
- 1. Tarpé Mills’s Miss Fury: Costume, Sexuality, and Power 31
- 2. Superman Family Values: Supersex in the Silver Age 57
- 3. A Storm of Passion: Sexual Agency and Symbolic Capital in the X-Men’s Storm 79
- 4. Dazzler, Melodrama, and Shame: Mutant Allegory, Closeted Readers 103
- 5. “Super-Gay” Gay Comix: Tracing the Underground Origins and Cultural Resonances of LGBTQ Superheroes 129
- 6. Parents, Counterpublics, and Sexual Identity in Young Avengers 151
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PART II. FILM, TELEVISION, AND FAN CULTURE
- 7. X-Men Films and the Domestication of Dissent: Sexuality, Race, and Respectability 175
- 8. Over the Rainbow Bridge: Female/Queer Sexuality in Marvel’s Thor Film Trilogy 199
- 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
- 10. The Visible and the Invisible: Superheroes, Pornography, and Phallic Masculinity 245
- 11. “I Think That’s My Favorite Weapon in the Whole Batcave”: Interrogating the Subversions of Men.com’s Gay Superhero Porn Parodies 265
- 12. “That’s Pussy Babe!”: Queering Supergirl’s Confessions of Power 291
- 13. Meet Stephanie Rogers, Captain America: Genderbending the Body Politic in Fan Art, Fiction, and Cosplay 317
- EPILOGUE: The Matter with Size 341
- CONTRIBUTORS 363
- INDEX 367
