Cooper-Cunningham, D. orcid.org/0000-0001-6043-2911 (2020) Drawing fear of difference: race, gender, and national identity in Ms. Marvel comics. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 48 (2). pp. 165-197. ISSN 0305-8298
Abstract
Feminist scholars have provided important analyses of the gendered and racialised discourses used to justify the Global War on Terror. They show how post-9/11 policies were made possible through particular binary constructions of race, gender, and national identity in official discourse. Turning to popular culture, this article uses a Queer feminist poststructuralist approach to look at the ways that Ms. Marvel comics destabilise and contest those racialised and gendered discourses. Specifically, it explores how Ms. Marvel provides a reading of race, gender, and national identity in post-9/11 USA that challenges gendered-racialised stereotypes. Providing a Queer reading of Ms. Marvel that undermines the coherence of Self/Other binaries, the article concludes that to write, draw, and circulate comics and the politics they depict is a way of intervening in international relations that imbues comics with the power to engage in dialogue with and (re)shape systems of racialised-gendered domination and counter discriminatory legislation.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 The Author(s). This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Millennium: Journal of International Studies. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. Article available under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
Keywords: | popular culture; identity; queer feminist poststructuralism |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Politics and International Relations (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Independent Research Fund Denmark 7015-00093B |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 03 May 2022 13:38 |
Last Modified: | 04 May 2022 09:41 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0305829819889133 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:186290 |
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