{"product_id":"vigilante-feminists-and-agents-of-destiny-violence-empowerment-and-the-teenage-superheroine-9781793630629","title":"Vigilante Feminists and Agents of Destiny: Violence, Empowerment, and the Teenage Super\/heroine","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003eThis interdisciplinary study explores the relationship between violence, empowerment, and teenage super\/heroines in comics and young adult fantasy novels, focusing on characters who use violence to reclaim agency and create safer communities. It identifies these characters as vigilante feminist teenage super\/heroines and argues that they are a product of and a response to the pervasive culture of violence against girls and women and a system that fails to protect them. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 176 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 15 September 2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Lexington Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe interdisciplinary study explores the relationship between violence, empowerment, and teenage super\/heroines in comics and young adult fantasy novels. The author analyzes stories of teenage super\/heroines who have experienced trauma, abduction, assault, and sexual violence, leading to a loss of agency. They then track the way that their use of violence empowers them to reclaim agency over their lives and bodies. The author identifies these characters as vigilante feminist teenage super\/heroines because they become vigilantes in order to protect other girls and young women from violence and create safer communities. The teenage super\/heroines examined in this book are characters who have the ability to fight back against those who seek to cause them harm through super power, supernatural, and magical ability. They are a product of and a response to both the pervasive culture of violence against girls and women and a system that fails to protect girls and women from harm. While this book is part of a robust intellectual conversation about the role of girls and women in popular literature and culture and about feminist analyses of comics and YA literature, it is unique in its reading of violence as empowerment and in its careful tracing—and naming—of the teenage vigilante super\/heroine, a characterization that is hugely popular and deserves this close reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 229 x 164 (mm)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781793630629\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Laura Mattoon D'Amore","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":44102194823418,"sku":"9781793630629","price":39.52,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/noImage_1_4e463565-2eeb-4f01-864a-d2a54ef2599a.jpg?v=1664209282","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/vigilante-feminists-and-agents-of-destiny-violence-empowerment-and-the-teenage-superheroine-9781793630629","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}