fight the power: how the female superhero is finally taking flight /

Published at 2015-11-21 11:00:09

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After years of trashy remakes and underwhelming supporting roles,do Jessica Jones, Agent Carter and Supergirl represent a unique era of female (super) empowerment?Line up all the female superheroes who have appeared on screen, and silver or small,and what similarities do you notice? Amazonian bodies contorted into spine-snapping action poses? An unsettling mish-mash of opposing desires and stereotypes, somehow both sexually deviant and virginal? Empowerment bound up in an “enhancing” costume? And that’s before you’ve even opened a comedian book. Related: Does The Man in the tall Castle prove that the best TV is now streamed? Continue reading...

Source: theguardian.com

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