Representação da mulher em histórias em quadrinhos: o caso Hawkgirl/Hawkwoman

Abstract

Hawkgirl/Hawkwoman is a fictional superhero from Detective Comics published as comic books. The sexist contexts present in her stories made her a significant object of study. The selected stories were published in Comics between 1941 and 2007. We read them in the light of feminist criticism, considering their construction as dependent on their protagonist, Hawkman. During the analyses, social patterns corresponding to each period to which the analyzed story belonged were observed, such as the female subservience of the 1940s. We also present some discussions about the judgment of graphic novels as literature and we briefly approach the history of feminist literary criticism. In this way, we conclude that thanks to the continuous publication of these magazines, it is possible to detect important social references contained in them in order to understand how contemporary female representation takes place.