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The history of comics has centered almost exclusively on men. Comics historians largely describe the medium as one built by men telling tales about male protagonists, neglecting the many ways in which women fought for legitimacy on the page and in publishers’ studios. Despite this male-dominated focus, women played vital roles in the early history of comics. The story of how comic books were born and how they evolved changes dramatically when women like June Tarpé Mills and Lily Renée are placed at the center rather than at the margins of this history, and when characters such as the Black Cat, Patsy Walker, and Señorita Rio are analyzed. Comic Book Women offers a feminist history of the golden age of comics, revising our understanding of how numerous genres emerged and upending narratives of how male auteurs built their careers. Considering issues of race, gender, and sexuality, the authors examine crime, horror, jungle, romance, science fiction, superhero, and Western comics to unpack the cultural and industrial consequences of how women were represented across a wide range of titles by publishers like DC, Timely, Fiction House, and others. This revisionist history reclaims the forgotten work done by women in the comics industry and reinserts female creators and characters into the canon of comics history.

Heroines in literature --- Women in literature --- Comic strip characters --- History

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European fiction --- Gender identity in literature. --- Heroines in literature. --- Emotions in literature. --- History and criticism.

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The figure of the woman as hero in pastoral romance is shown to grow in importance and complexity in this important new study.

Pastoral fiction, English --- English fiction --- Heroines in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Heroines --- Women and literature

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This book is about the bold, beautiful, and faithful heroines of the Greek novels and their mythical models, such as Iphigenia, Phaedra, Penelope, and Helen. The novels manipulate readerly expectations through a complex web of mythical variants and constantly negotiate their adventure and erotic plot with that of traditional myths becoming, thus, part of the imperial mythical revision to which they add the prospect of a happy ending.

Women --- Heroines in literature --- Mythology, Greek --- Greek mythology --- Heroines --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Mythology --- E-books --- Heroines in literature. --- Mythology, Greek. --- Euripides. --- Homer. --- Myth. --- novelistic narratives.

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Arts --- Heroines in literature --- Heroines --- Women heroes in art --- Themes, motives --- Folklore --- Joan, --- Joan, --- In literature. --- Portraits.