Love, Sex, Gender, and Superheroes

Introduction: Signifying Love, Sex, and Gender
1 The Visible and the Invisible: Superheroes and Phallic Masculinity
2 Women Dark and Dangerous: Super Femme Fatales and Female Sexuality
3 Secrets of the Batcave: Masculinity and Homosocial Space
4 Marriage, Domesticity, and Superheroes (for Better or Worse)
5 It Starts with a Kiss: Straightening and Queering the Superhero
6 Even an Android Has Feelings: Learning about Love and Robots
7 Super Fluidity: Transing and Transcending Gendered Bodies
8 KRAKK! WHACK! SMACK! Comic Book Violence and Sexual Assault
9 Pleasure, Pain, Climaxes, and Little Deaths
Conclusion: Love, Sex, Gender, and Superheroes in Real Life
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superheroes; sex; gender studies; comic studies; popular culture; American studies; women's studies; LGBTQ studies; DC; marvel comic