Literature. To heck with the village : fantastic heroines, journey and return / Sandra J. Lindow ; From duckling to swan : what makes a twilight heroine strong / Tricia Clasen ; Salem's daughters : witchcraft, justice, and the heroine in popular culture / Lauren Lemley ; Heroine : Christina of Markyate / K. A. Laity ; The bohemian gypsy, another body to sell : deciphering Esmeralda in popular culture / Adina Scheewis ; Writing women in war : speaking through, about, and for female soldiers in Iraq / Christina M. Smith
Exotic, foreign, familiar, and queer. The borderland construction of Latin America and Latina heroines in contemporary visual media / Mauricio Espinoza ; Janissary : an Orientalist heroine or a role model for Muslim women? / Itir Erhart and Hande Eslen-Ziya ; Representations of motherhood in X-Men / Christopher Paul Wagenheim ; Negotiating life spaces : how marriage marginalized Storm / Anita McDaniel ; The mother of all superheroes : idealizations of femininity in Wonder Woman / Sharon Zechowski and Caryn E. Neumann ; Wonder Woman : lesbian or dyke? : Paradise Island as a woman's community / Trina Robbins ; Homicidal lesbian terrorists to crimson caped crusaders : how folk and mainstread lesbian heroes queer cultural space / AprilJo Murphy
Contemporary American graphic novels/comics. Punching holes in the sky : Carol Danvers and the potential of superheroinism / Nathan Miczo ; Jumping rope naked : John Byrne, metafiction, and the comics code / Roy Cook ; Invisible, tiny, and distant : the powers and roles of Marvel's early female superheroes / Joseph Darowski ; Heroines aplenty, but none my mother, but none my mother would know : Marvel's lack of an iconic superheroine / T. Keith Edmunds ; Liminality and capitalism in Spider-Woman and Wonder Woman : how to make stronger (i.e. male) two super powerful women / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns ; Empowerment as transgression : the rise and fall of the Black Cat in Kevin Smith's The Evil That Men Do / Michael R. Kramer.