These are the only two female superhero leads that we have ever seen in Marvel or DC films, and whether it’s incidental or not, the two heroes tell us a lot about how our culture thinks about power, femininity and womanhood.
Author: Afshan Jafar
Afshan Jafar is an associate professor of sociology at Connecticut College, the author of "Women’s NGOs in Pakistan" and the co-editor for "Bodies without Borders" and "Global Beauty, Local Bodies."
Where Are the Girls?
During Women’s History Month, many regional competitions of the History Bee take place around the country—and I’m beginning to think they missed the memo about March.
The Chimera of Choice
How do we determine where to draw the lines of acceptable and unacceptable bodily interventions? Especially troubling is the eerily uncomfortable overlap of female genital construction surgery and what we define as female genital mutilation.