Intersectional Feminist Readings of Comics

Sandra Cox is an Assistant Professor of English at Southeast Missouri State University, where she teaches courses in American literature by writers from historically marginalized communities. She holds a doctorate in literary studies from the University of Kansas (2011). Her first monograph, entitled An Ethics of Reading, was published in 2015. Dr. Cox has written articles on comics published in The Journal of Comics and Graphic Novels and twice in Watchung Review and articles on feminist literary criticism published in the journals Assuming Gender, Postcolonial Interventions, Parlour, Red Feather, and [Inter]sections. She has also contributed chapters on visual media and/or gender studies to the following edited collections, including Where is Adaptation (2018), Weaving the Legacy: Remembering Paula Gunn Allen (2017), and Bodies and Culture: Discourses, Communities, Representations (2012).

• Introduction: Drawn to and from gender: some of what it means to critique comics through intersectional feminist theory Sandra Cox Part I: Racialized Heroes and Sexualized Villains 1. Contested adaptations: legacies of orientalism, the she-hero, and Hollywood’s diversity aesthetic in Marvel’s Doctor Strange (2016) Michael Reinhard and Monica Roxanne Sadler2. On the fringes and tassels of respectability: Catwoman and censoring the femme form A. Luxx Mishou 3. Queer, Latina, and Punching Nazis: a New America breaking borders Ande Davis 4. Unweaving the World: militant eco-feminism in the anti-fairy tale Beautiful Darkness Shane Gomes Part II: National Histories and Personal Autographies 5. Drawn into being: the transformative voices of Native American and First Nations Women in comics and visual narratives Nicole Dib 6. Comics and gendered subjectivity: the multifaceted truth of Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoirs Cody Shrum 7 Love, lust and lucre in Leela Corman’s Unterzakhn Alex Link

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