Introduction. X‑Women to Watch Out For

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword. A Danger Room of One’s Own ix
4. Introduction. X‑Women to Watch Out For 1
5. Chapter 1. Jean, Moira, and the Archetypal “Claremont Woman” 23
6. Chapter 2. Storm: From Mother-Goddess to Resolutely Indefinable 35
7. Chapter 3. Ladies Night and the Second Generation of Claremont Women 53
8. Chapter 4. She Makes Him Nervous: Cyclops’s Baseline Masculinity and the Exchange of Gender Power 73
9. Chapter 5. Wolverine as Subversive Masculine Paradigm 89
10. Chapter 6. A Spectrum of “Men”: Refracting Masculinities through Nightcrawler and Havok 115
11. Conclusion. A Legacy in Waiting 137
12. Acknowledgments 141
13. Notes 143
14. References 147
15. Index 157