[ecrea] Gender and Superheroes - Special Issue Call for Papers

Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics

Special Issue Call for Papers

Gender and Superheroes

The superhero genre dominates the comics industry with representations of hypermuscular action men or sexy women wearing costumes that show off their near naked bodies. There are examples of more diverse approaches to both creating and analysing these figures but they remain, as yet, in the minority. Much of this work is produced by mainly male creators for similarly constructed audiences. Whilst that does not limit the possibilities of the superhero, to date there has been little substantial work in superheroes and gender beyond Trina Robbins work on women superheroes and Ndalianis’s edited collection of essays on heroism in which a few essays touch upon superheroes.  This area, however, is of great interest to academia as evidenced by a significant proportion of papers submitted to the journal in recent months.  We are, therefore, proposing a special issue in which this topic can be examined in a more sustained manner. 

Submissions are invited of papers 5000-7000 words by January 1, 2011 relating but not limited to the following topics:
·         Representation
·         Theoretical issues
·         Audiences

·         History and Industry

Read the full call for papers for more information: http://bit.ly/cJKZMa

 

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