Women in Comic Books
Geoffrey Kawkami shared a couple of sites focused on the image and presentation of women in comics. The link here is to Jessica Robinson's "Women in Comic Books," a 2001 essay tracing the history of that topic from Wonder Woman up to the "modern women that we all know, love and ...are" in _Sandman_.
A short piece by Jol Silversmith, published in 1993, addresses the female body in comics, noting the fishnet stockings on the crime-fighting Black Canary and the trend (then; is it true now?) to show non-white women as "green (the She-Hulk), furry (the feline Tigra), or not human (the alien princess Starfire)."
Find it at www.thirdamendment.com/comics.html.
A short piece by Jol Silversmith, published in 1993, addresses the female body in comics, noting the fishnet stockings on the crime-fighting Black Canary and the trend (then; is it true now?) to show non-white women as "green (the She-Hulk), furry (the feline Tigra), or not human (the alien princess Starfire)."
Find it at www.thirdamendment.com/comics.html.
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