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Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, and Their Fans
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ISBN: 1578062829 9786612917349 1604737638 128291734X Year: 2001 Publisher: Jackson University Press of Mississipi

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Dangerous curves : action heroines, gender, fetishism, and popular culture
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ISBN: 160473714X 9786613010186 1604737158 1283010186 9781604737158 9781628468250 1628468254 9781604737141 9781617039409 1617039403 Year: 2011 Publisher: Jackson University Press of Mississippi

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Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture addresses the conflicted meanings associated with the figure of the action heroine as she has evolved in various media forms since the late 1980's. Jeffrey A. Brown discusses this immensely popular character type as an example of, and challenge to, existing theories about gender as a performance identity. Her assumption of heroic masculine traits combined with her sexualized physical depiction demonstrates the ambiguous nature of traditional gender expectations and indicates a growing awareness of more aggressive and...


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Insuring Long Term Care In the US
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Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research

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Household Ownership of Variable Annuities
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Year: 2006 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research

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Risk and Returns to Education
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Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research

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How University Endowments Respond to Financial Market Shocks
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Year: 2010 Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research

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The role of annuity markets in financing retirement
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ISBN: 0262269376 0585437289 9780262269377 0262025094 9780262025096 9780585437286 Year: 2001 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press

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Annuity insurance products help protect retirees against outliving their incomes.Dramatic advances in life expectancy mean that today's retirees must plan on living into their eighties, their nineties, and even beyond. Longer life expectancies are the symbol of a prosperous society, but this progress also means that some retirees will need to plan conservatively and cut back substantially on their living standards or risk living so long that they exhaust their resources. This book examines the role that life annuities can play in helping people protect themselves against such outcomes.A life annuity is an insurance product that pays out a periodic amount for as long as the annuitant is alive, in exchange for a premium. The book begins with a history of life annuity markets during the twentieth century in the United States and elsewhere. It then explores recent trends in annuity pricing and money's worth, as well as the economic value generated for purchasers of these products. The book explains the potential importance of inflation-protected annuities and stock-market-linked variable annuities in providing more complete retirement security. The concluding chapters examine life annuities in various institutional settings and the tax treatment of annuity products.


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Panthers, Hulks and Ironhearts : Marvel, diversity and the twenty-first century century superhero
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ISBN: 9781978809215 9781978809222 Year: 2021 Publisher: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press,

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"Marvel is famous for their fantastic superheroes. Spider-Man, Captain America, Iron Man and dozens of other costumed avengers from the Marvel Universe are recognized the world over. In the 21st Century, Marvel has expanded just what it means to be a superhero, and who can wear the tights. Panthers, Hulks & Ironhearts explores the importance of ethnicity in many of Marvel's newest heroes (and a few of their oldest) in the comics, movies, and on television. New characters of color like the Pakistani-American Ms. Marvel, the Latina Ms. America, the Korean-American Hulk and Silk, as well as new takes on old heroes such as the African American versions of Spider-Man, Captain America, and Iron Man, have joined such landmark heroes as Black Panther and Luke Cage to diversify the role of superhero. These "All New, All Different" heroes can defeat super villains, but they can also help explain important cultural concepts like stereotyping, Orientalism, repatriation, whitewashing, and identification"--


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Love, sex, gender, and superheroes
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ISBN: 9781978825260 9781978825277 Year: 2022 Publisher: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press,

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"Unpacking the complicated ways superheroes reproduce cultural beliefs about gender, sexuality, and romance, Love, Sex, Gender, and Superheroes delves into the underlying and erotic implications of caped crusaders. Superheroes are more popular than ever, with a seemingly endless run of record-breaking Hollywood movies, hit television and streaming series, the mainstreaming of comic books as a literary form, and superhero themed merchandising available almost everywhere. The genre has always been about good vs. evil, larger-than-life heroes vs. stylish villains, and a never-ending fight for "Truth, Justice and the American way." But, in a less obvious way, the genre has also been about gender ideals: how men and women are supposed to look, act, and interact with each other. Under the guise of being merely childish fantasies, superheroes have consistently provided fantastic adventures that make abstract ideas about gender and sexuality seem natural. Superheroes deal with topics as diverse as: fetishism, phallic symbolism, bodies, love, marriage, eroticized violence, queer identities, homosociality, transexuality, orgasms, and robot/human sexual relations. This spicier underside of superheroes reveals and reinforces attitudes about gender and sex, and how some of those ideas are changing in a modern world"-- Impossibly muscular men and voluptuous women parade around in revealing, skintight outfits, and their romantic and sexual entanglements are a key part of the ongoing drama. Such is the state of superhero comics and movies, a genre that has become one of our leading mythologies, conveying influential messages about gender, sexuality, and relationships. Love, Sex, Gender, and Superheroes examines a full range of superhero media, from comics to films to television to merchandising. With a keen eye for the genre’s complex and internally contradictory mythology, comics scholar Jeffrey A. Brown considers its mixed messages. Superhero comics may reinforce sex roles with their litany of phallic musclemen and slinky femme fatales, but they also blur gender binaries with their emphasis on transformation and body swaps. Similarly, while most heroes have heterosexual love interests, the genre prioritizes homosocial bonding, and it both celebrates and condemns gendered and sexualized violence. With examples spanning from the Golden Ages of DC and Marvel comics up to recent works like the TV series The Boys, this study provides a comprehensive look at how superhero media shapes our perceptions of love, sex, and gender.

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