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

[Charles Hatfield]

Congratulations, Anna, to you and all your co-contributors! I've been
looking forward to this collection. Thanks for the heads up!

CH

On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 6:33 PM Anna Peppard via ComicsStudiesSociety <
comicsstudiessociety at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> Hi CSS members,
>
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> With the usual apologies for self-promotion and cross-posting—today marks
> the official release of the anthology Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and
> the Superhero
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/peppard-supersex__;!!KGKeukY!kvRBVZAhVQRtD_FCDfJq_OY_YbLcsyZy1RsYbzZavePmicb0emm79hd3G_G_Yn77lGPsXj7Mf-WF$>,
> part of the World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series
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> 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.
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> From the publisher’s website:
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> “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.”
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> 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
> from the University of Texas Press website:
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> The book is also available as a Kindle ebook (though the discount only
> applies to physical copies, unfortunately).
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> 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
> Editor, Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy and the Superhero
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> *Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero*
>
> *Table of Contents*
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>
> Introduction. Presence and Absence in Theory and Practice: Locating
> Supersex (Anna F. Peppard)
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> *Part I. Comics*
>
> 1. Tarpé Mills’s Miss Fury: Costume, Sexuality, and Power (Richard
> Reynolds)
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> 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)
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> 5. “Super-Gay” Gay Comix: Tracing the Underground Origins and Cultural
> Resonances of LGBTQ Superheroes (Sarah Panuska)
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> 6. Parents, Counterpublics, and Sexual Identity in Young Avengers (Keith
> Friedlander)
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> *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)
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> 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)
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> Epilogue: The Matter with Size (Richard Harrison)
>
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