From Superman and Batman to the X-Men and Young Avengers, Supersex interrogates the relationship between heroism and sexuality, shedding new light on our fantasies of both. Peppard and her contributors present superhero sexuality as both dangerously exciting and excitingly dangerous, encapsulating the superhero genreâ s worst impulses and its most productively rebellious ones.
From Superman and Batman to the X-Men and Young Avengers, Supersex interrogates the relationship between heroism and sexuality, shedding new light on our fantasies of both. Peppard and her contributors present superhero sexuality as both dangerously exciting and excitingly dangerous, encapsulating the superhero genreâ s worst impulses and its most productively rebellious ones.
Anna F. Peppard is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada postdoctoral fellow in Brock University’s department of communication, popular culture, and film.
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1. Introduction. Presence and Absence in Theory and Practice: Locating Supersex (Anna F. Peppard) 2. Part I. Comics * 1. TarpÉ Mills’s Miss Fury: Costume, Sexuality, and Power (Richard Reynolds) * 2. Superman Family Values: Supersex in the Silver Age (Matt Yockey) * 3. A Storm of Passion: Sexual Agency and Symbolic Capital in the X-Men’s Storm (J. Andrew Deman) * 4. Dazzler, Melodrama, and Shame: Mutant Allegory, Closeted Readers (Brian Johnson) * 5. “Super-Gay” Gay Comix: Tracing the Underground Origins and Cultural Resonances of LGBTQ Superheroes (Sarah Panuska) * 6. Parents, Counterpublics, and Sexual Identity in Young Avengers (Keith Friedlander) 3. Part II. Film, Television, and Fan Culture * 7. X-Men Films and the Domestication of Dissent: Sexuality, Race, and Respectability (Christopher B. Zeichmann) * 8. Over the Rainbow Bridge: Female/Queer Sexuality in Marvel’s Thor Film Trilogy (Samantha Langsdale) * 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 (Anna F. Peppard) * 10. The Visible and the Invisible: Superheroes, Pornography, and Phallic Masculinity (Jeffrey A. Brown) * 11. “I Think That’s My Favorite Weapon in the Whole Batcave”: Interrogating the Subversions of Men.com’s Gay Superhero Porn Parodies (Joseph Brennan) * 12. “That’s Pussy Babe!”: Queering Supergirl’s Confessions of Power (Olivia Hicks) * 13. Meet Stephanie Rogers, Captain America: Genderbending the Body Politic in Fan Art, Fiction, and Cosplay (Anne Kustritz) 4. Epilogue: The Matter with Size (Richard Harrison) 5. Contributors 6. Index
1. Introduction. Presence and Absence in Theory and Practice: Locating Supersex (Anna F. Peppard) 2. Part I. Comics * 1. TarpÉ Mills’s Miss Fury: Costume, Sexuality, and Power (Richard Reynolds) * 2. Superman Family Values: Supersex in the Silver Age (Matt Yockey) * 3. A Storm of Passion: Sexual Agency and Symbolic Capital in the X-Men’s Storm (J. Andrew Deman) * 4. Dazzler, Melodrama, and Shame: Mutant Allegory, Closeted Readers (Brian Johnson) * 5. “Super-Gay” Gay Comix: Tracing the Underground Origins and Cultural Resonances of LGBTQ Superheroes (Sarah Panuska) * 6. Parents, Counterpublics, and Sexual Identity in Young Avengers (Keith Friedlander) 3. Part II. Film, Television, and Fan Culture * 7. X-Men Films and the Domestication of Dissent: Sexuality, Race, and Respectability (Christopher B. Zeichmann) * 8. Over the Rainbow Bridge: Female/Queer Sexuality in Marvel’s Thor Film Trilogy (Samantha Langsdale) * 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 (Anna F. Peppard) * 10. The Visible and the Invisible: Superheroes, Pornography, and Phallic Masculinity (Jeffrey A. Brown) * 11. “I Think That’s My Favorite Weapon in the Whole Batcave”: Interrogating the Subversions of Men.com’s Gay Superhero Porn Parodies (Joseph Brennan) * 12. “That’s Pussy Babe!”: Queering Supergirl’s Confessions of Power (Olivia Hicks) * 13. Meet Stephanie Rogers, Captain America: Genderbending the Body Politic in Fan Art, Fiction, and Cosplay (Anne Kustritz) 4. Epilogue: The Matter with Size (Richard Harrison) 5. Contributors 6. Index
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