Title: HOT PANTS & SPANDEX: GENDER REPRESENTATION TPB (2021) #1

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

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HOT PANTS & SPANDEX GENDER REPRESENTATION AMER COMICS SC (C: 0-1-0)
Hot Pants and Spandex Suits offers a far-reaching look at how masculinity and femininity have been represented in American superhero comics, from the Golden and Silver Ages to the Modern Age. Scholar Esther De Dauw contrasts the bulletproof and musclebound phallic bodies of classic male heroes like Superman, Captain America, and Iron Man with the figures of female counterparts like Wonder Woman and Supergirl, who are drawn as superhumanly flexible and plastic. It also examines the genre's ambivalent treatment of LGBTQ representation and explores the intersection between gender and race. (W) Esther De Dauw