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Review: The Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines by Mike Madrid

October 17, 2011

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I’ve never been a comic book reader. There’s no single reason I can give for not getting into comics as a kid. Maybe it was something a benign as them simply never capturing my attention. Maybe I bought into the idea that the mainstream comics with the male superheroes weren’t meant to be read…

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Review: Hellions: Pop Culture’s Rebel Women by Maria Raha

July 18, 2011

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Format: Paperback Published on: October 1st 2008 Published by: Seal Press Pages: 280 ISBN: 1580052401 Goodreads Modern pop culture has a double standard when it comes to rebellion: male rebels are celebrated for their courage, their sexiness, and their loner lifestyle. Female rebels, on the other hand, are often reprimanded or seen as damaged…

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