[Comicsstudiessociety] Out now: Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero (U of Texas Press)

[Anna Peppard]

Hi CSS members,



With the usual apologies for self-promotion and cross-posting—today marks
the official release of the anthology Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the
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from
University of Texas Press. It’s the first book to focus on depictions of
sexuality in multiple forms of superhero media (comics, film, television,
pornography, fan works), and takes an intersectional approach to the topic,
discussing diverse representations in conversation with gender, race, and
disability.



>From the publisher’s website:



“Exploring sexual themes and imagery within mainstream comic books,
television shows, and films as well as independent and explicitly
pornographic productions catering to various orientations and kinks,
*Supersex *offers a fresh—and lascivious—perspective on the superhero
genre’s historical and contemporary popularity. Across fourteen essays
touching on Superman, Batman, the X-Men, and many others, Anna F. Peppard
and her contributors present superhero sexuality as both dangerously
exciting and excitingly dangerous, encapsulating the superhero genre’s
worst impulses and its most productively rebellious ones. *Supersex *argues
that sex is at the heart of our fascination with superheroes, even—and
sometimes especially—when the capes and tights stay on.”



I hope some of you will consider ordering it for yourselves or your
university libraries! Now until January 31st, 2021, you can use the promo
code UTEXAS to get 40% of this and other great books when you buy direct
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The book is also available as a Kindle ebook (though the discount only
applies to physical copies, unfortunately).



You can find the table of contents on the publisher’s website; I’ve also
pasted it below. If anyone is interested in a review copy of the book, they
may contact Cameron Ludwick at U of Texas Press: cludwick at utpress.utexas.edu



Best to all,

-Anna

--
Anna F. Peppard, PhD (she/her/hers)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral
Fellow
Brock University, Department of Communication, Popular Culture & Film
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*Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero*

*Table of Contents*


Introduction. Presence and Absence in Theory and Practice: Locating
Supersex (Anna F. Peppard)



*Part I. Comics*

1. Tarpé Mills’s Miss Fury: Costume, Sexuality, and Power (Richard Reynolds)

2. Superman Family Values: Supersex in the Silver Age (Matt Yockey)

3. A Storm of Passion: Sexual Agency and Symbolic Capital in the X-Men’s
Storm (J. Andrew Deman)

4. Dazzler, Melodrama, and Shame: Mutant Allegory, Closeted Readers (Brian
Johnson)

5. “Super-Gay” Gay Comix: Tracing the Underground Origins and Cultural
Resonances of LGBTQ Superheroes (Sarah Panuska)

6. Parents, Counterpublics, and Sexual Identity in Young Avengers (Keith
Friedlander)



*Part II. Film, Television, and Fan Culture*

7. X-Men Films and the Domestication of Dissent: Sexuality, Race, and
Respectability (Christopher B. Zeichmann)

8. Over the Rainbow Bridge: Female/Queer Sexuality in Marvel’s Thor Film
Trilogy (Samantha Langsdale)

9. “No One’s Going to Be Looking at Your Face”: The Female Gaze and the New
(Super)Man in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (Anna F. Peppard)

10. The Visible and the Invisible: Superheroes, Pornography, and Phallic
Masculinity (Jeffrey A. Brown)

11. “I Think That’s My Favorite Weapon in the Whole Batcave”: Interrogating
the Subversions of Men.com’s Gay Superhero Porn Parodies (Joseph Brennan)

12. “That’s Pussy Babe!”: Queering Supergirl’s Confessions of Power (Olivia
Hicks)

13. Meet Stephanie Rogers, Captain America: Genderbending the Body Politic
in Fan Art, Fiction, and Cosplay (Anne Kustritz)



Epilogue: The Matter with Size (Richard Harrison)
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