Women Vigilantes and Outlaws in American Popular Media : Who Was That Masked Woman? (Hardcover)

Introduction: Who Was That Masked Woman???1. When Outlaws Become In-Laws: Louisa May Alcott and the Lady Grifter??2. Female Outlawry on the Gilded Age American Stage: Lydia Thompson as the British Outlaw in the 1872 Burlesque Robin Hood??3. “The Case of the Peroxide Blonde”: Real Women Criminals in True-Crime Radio Programs of the 1930s, Calling All Cars and Gang Busters??4. Not Even Mentioned: Invisible Femininity and the Nation-State in Zorro’s Black Whip??5. The Debutante Vigilante: Lady Luck, an Early Model for World War Womanhood? 6. Nietzsche’s Wily Women in George Stevens’ Annie Oakley (1935) vs. Superman in DC Action Comics?(1938) and Warner Bros. Media? 7. Crones, Dragon Ladies, and Femme Fatales of Golden Age Comics