Heroines of comic books and literature: portrayals in popular culture

To heck with the village: fantastic heroines, journey and return / Sandra J. Lindow

From duckling to swan: what makes a Twilight heroine strong / Tricia Clasen

Salem's daughters: witchcraft, justice, and the heroine in popular culture / Lauren Lemley

Heroine: Christina of Markyate / K.A. Laity

The Bohemian gypsy, another body to sell: deciphering Esmeralda in popular culture / Adina Schneeweis

Writing women in war: speaking through, about, and for female soldiers in Iraq / Christina M. Smith

The borderland construction of Latin America and Latina heroines in contemporary visual media / Mauricio Espinoza

Janissary: an Orientalist heroine or a role model for Muslim women? / Itir Erhart and Hande Eslen-Ziya

Representations of motherhood in X-Men / Christopher Paul Wagenheim

Negotiating life spaces: how marriage marginalized Storm / Anita McDaniel

The mother of all superheroes: idealizations of femininity in Wonder Woman / Sharon Zechowski and Caryn E. Neumann

Wonder Woman: lesbian or dyke?: Paradise Island as a woman's community / Trina Robbins

Homicidal lesbian terrorists to crimson caped crusaders: how folk and mainstream lesbian heroes queer cultural space / AprilJo Murphy

Punching holes in the sky: Carol Danvers and the potential of superheroinism / Nathan Miczo

Jumping rope naked: John Byrne, metafiction, and the comics code / Roy Cook

Invisible, tiny, and distant: the powers and roles of Marvel's early female superheroes / Joseph Darowski

Heroines aplenty, but none my mother would know: Marvel's lack of an iconic superheroine / T. Keith Edmunds

Liminality and capitalism in Spider-Woman and Wonder Woman: how to make stronger (i.e. male) two super powerful women / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns

Empowerment as transgression: the rise and fall of the Black Cat in Kevin Smith's The Evil That Men Do / Michael R. Kramer.