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Baran Ulag, Moritz Deul

Gender issues in comic art

7. Conclusion

6. Changes in gender role?

5. "Men will be men ; women will be girls

4. Female heroes in teams?

3. Difference in power

2. History of comicbooks

1. Who is this?

Structure

Who is this person?

  • Inexpensive form of entertainment during WWII

History of comicbooks

  • Superman first real superhero
  • Men have high physical powers
  • Higher leadership skills
  • "Insanely rich"

Difference in power

  • More typical female abilites ("hair control")
  • Are often given non-physical powers
  • High agility powers (flexibility)

Female heroes in teams?

  1. Over 2500 teams in DC and Marvel
  2. Low number of female heroes results in low number of female team mates
  3. 30 % of teams have no women
  4. Only 4.8 % have both genders in a team

https://fastly.syfy.com/sites/syfy/files/styles/2200xauto/public/team-distribution.png

5.7% of female characters with gendered names have 'woman' in their name.

"girl” as diminutive version of woman.

8% of both male and female have gendered names

"Men will be men, women will be girls

General increase of female characters in Comic books

Changes in gender role ?

Conclusion

https://fastly.syfy.com/sites/syfy/files/styles/2200xauto/public/team-distribution.png

https://www.humanities.org/blog/how-american-history-created-the-american-superhero/

https://www.cbr.com/iconic-female-team-ups-comics/

https://pudding.cool/2017/07/comics/

https://blog.retroplanet.com/superhero-comic-book-history/#:~:text=Comic%20books%20were%20a%20popular,the%20Justice%20Society%20of%20America.&text=Superman%20and%20Batman%20were%20a,that%20continued%20to%20be%20published.

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