Women Vigilantes and Outlaws in American Popular Media
Who Was That Masked Woman?
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Women Vigilantes and Outlaws in American Popular Media
Who Was That Masked Woman?
About this book
This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines how women vigilantes, social bandits, outlaws, and anti-heroines were represented in American novels, movie serials, radio dramas, films, comics, and pulp fiction, from the post-Civil War era through World War II.
Demonstrating a broad spectrum of methodological and critical approaches, the book includes essays from seasoned as well as emerging scholars. The collected essays fill a gap in present popular culture studies and intersect with outlaw studies, gender studies, feminism, historical studies, and media archaeology, along with citizenship and national identity. The volume also considers how representations of women relate to matters of class, sexuality, and ethnicity. By analyzing female outlaws, both real and imagined, this study highlights the ways that these women have become symbols of justice and social transformation in American cultural memory.
This book is an ideal resource for researchers and academics in popular culture studies, media studies, outlaw studies, comparative literature, and feminist studies, as well as historians who focus on media in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Who Was That Masked Woman?
- 1 When Outlaws Become In-Laws: Louisa May Alcott and the Lady Grifter
- 2 Female Outlawry on the Gilded Age American Stage: Lydia Thompson as the British Outlaw in the 1872 Burlesque Robin Hood
- 3 āThe Case of the Peroxide Blondeā: Real Women Criminals in True-Crime Radio Programs of the 1930s, Calling All Cars and Gang Busters
- 4 Not Even Mentioned: Invisible Femininity and the Nation-State in Zorroās Black Whip
- 5 The Debutante Vigilante: Lady Luck, an Early Model for World War Womanhood
- 6 Nietzscheās Wily Women in George Stevensā Annie Oakley (1935) vs. Superman in DC Action Comics (1938) and Warner Bros. Media
- 7 Crones, Dragon Ladies, and Femme Fatales of Golden Age Comics
- Index