Female Empowerment In Marvel's A-Force

A-Force released on May 20th, 2015 Published by Marvel Comics as, “Marvel 's Mightiest Women finally get there own comic book!” This comic book is a text that depicts women in empowered roles that could be a great influence on young girls. Many things in the media are targeted towards young girls such as Barbies, and Disney Princesses that have the depiction of women always needing a man, as so in comic books with the male protagonist depicting women as powerless. The media constantly markets these thing this way to encourage girls to be subordinate to men. A-Force does the complete opposite, for example A-Force super heroes have muscles and are strong while things like barbies have no type of physical attributes or features that that would

You see the superheros performing tasks that usually you would see a man in a comic doing. The superheros are up before the men, drinking coffee, eating breakfast and you can also see that one of the superheros is kissing her husband on the cheek while she’s leaving to go to work. So, this page in A-Force could show a young girl that female superheros, as well as regular human women can take on roles of professionalism by instead of the men going off to work and providing for the house a woman could also do the same. Furthermore, on the second page of A-Force in the 3rd block you see a superhero in the market, and she’s dressed very modestly because she is fully covered in a jumpsuit. This is showing that female superheros do not have to be put into curve hugging, boob showing costumes to show how strong or sensual they are, just because they are women, and by her being in that jumpsuit it doesn’t make her any less powerful than any other superhero. Moreover, to the right of the third block you see a man pushing a baby in a stroller and woman with a police badge around her neck. This is also showng a switch of gender roles that you would normally see. The woman is the one looking around and has a police badge around her neck while there is a big muscly man pushing a baby in a stroller which also, kind of takes away from his masculinity and gives some

The comic book A-Force is entailed with all female superheros from a feminist paradise, which in itself is a sign or empowerment for women in the comic book community because there are no men on the island and are functioning just fine on their own. Rose says in her article that women are becoming more prominent in the comic book industry because people are being more on the forefront of talking about the issues of female superheroes in them. Also, that if more people are talking about feminism and the place it has in “superhero fiction”, women will want to come out and admit that they like them. This shows that a comic like A-Force is another good read for young girls that are and have been viewing the comic book community and comics as not representing women in comics correctly. A prime example of this is the second page of A-Force which shows a switch in gender roles compared to what you would see in other comics, which is a female superhero is waking up and kissing the husband while she goes off the fight crime. So, if a young girl were to read this comic and see strong and powerful women being empowered which is one of G. Willow Wilson’s goals, like Rose said they would more than likely want to be into comics and have a more prominent