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This book uses a gender perspective to study the female Amerindian characters in Early Modern Spanish Comedias. The chapters in this collection bring different approaches and perspectives that intersect between feminism and cultural studies while they also critically deconstruct the European representation of Amerindian women.

Spanish drama --- Indian women in literature. --- History and criticism.

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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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Aimer et Mourir offers a wide-ranging selection of essays that collectively address how, from the Middle Ages to the present, the notions of love and death get inextricably associated with the narratives that are women's lives. Some of the essays tackle male writers' representations that link women and, in particular, women's sexuality, with death, resulting in the figures of the femme fatale, the woman in parturition, and the desiring vampire. A number of essays reiterate that women's hyper...

French literature --- Women in literature. --- History and criticism.

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This powerful study reconceptualizes ideas of ethnic literature while investigating the construction of ethnic heroines, shifting the focus away from cultural politics and considering instead narrative or poetic qualities which involve surprising relationships between Anglo-American women's writing and fiction produced by Asian American and African American women authors.

American fiction --- Minority women --- African American women --- Asian American women --- Women and literature --- African American women in literature. --- Asian American women in literature. --- Minority women in literature. --- Heroines in literature. --- Women in literature. --- American literature --- Afro-American women --- Women, African American --- Women, Negro --- Women --- Women minorities --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Heroines --- Afro-American women in literature --- Literature --- Women, Asian American --- Asian American authors --- History and criticism. --- African American authors --- Women authors --- Intellectual life. --- History and criticism --- United States --- Intellectual life --- African American women in literature --- Minority women in literature --- Heroines in literature --- Women in literature --- Asian American women in literature

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Women outside marriage between 1850 and the Second World War were seen as abnormal, threatening, superfluous and incomplete, whilst also being hailed as 'women of the future'. Before 1850 odd women were marginalised, minor characters, yet by the 1930s spinsters, lesbians and widows had become heroines. This book considers how Victorian and modernist women's writing challenged the heterosexual plot and reconfigured conceptualisations of public and private space in order to valorise female oddity.

English fiction --- Women in literature. --- Single women in literature. --- Widows in literature. --- Lesbians in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Women in literature --- Single women in literature --- Widows in literature --- Lesbians in literature --- English literature --- History and criticism --- Women authors&delete& --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature