FEMMES FORMIDABLES
a DIACHRONIC study of the IMAGE of the POWERFUL FEMALE in POPULAR (and maybe other) CULTURES
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
YEAR 1975: STORM
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Though the Valkyrie may be viewed as Marvel Comics' first true powerhouse, Storm is the first one to take on mythic properties in ...
Saturday, June 23, 2012
YEAR 1974: WONDER WOMAN
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By late 1972 DC Comics had abandoned their experiment with the WONDER WOMAN title, in which the Amazing Amazon lost her super-powers and had...
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
YEAR 1973: COFFY
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As I noted in the BUTTERFLY essay, COFFY was Pam Grier's breakout film. Grier's "Coffy" is a nurse who becomes pisse...
Sunday, June 17, 2012
YEAR 1972: LADY SNOWBLOOD
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One of the more noteworthy femmes formidables of 1970s manga was the righteous assassin Lady Snowblood, who sometimes went after her (e...
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
YEAR 1971: THE BUTTERFLY
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Although Marvel's Storm remains the best-known black superheroine, the first one appeared in a backup strip in HELL RIDER #1, one of...
Thursday, June 7, 2012
YEAR 1970: THE VALKYRIE
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Though I don't agree with critics who dismiss Marvel's 1960s superheroines as wimps, I've admitted in some of my ARCHETYPAL ARC...
Thursday, May 31, 2012
YEAR 1969: VAMPIRELLA
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As the sixties drew to a close the publishers of "mainstream" color comics were still hemmed in by their self-policing Comics ...
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