Despite the growing importance of heroines across literary culture—and sales figures that demonstrate both young adult and adult females are reading about her

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In America, comics and comic books have often been associated with adolescent male fantasy--muscle-bound superheroes and scantily clad women. Nonetheless, comic

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As portrayals of heroic women gain ground in film, television, and other media, their depictions are breaking free of females as versions of male heroes or simp