Por Themyscira e por todas nós : o uso dos quadrinhos na compreensão das questões feministas e de gênero.

Abstract

In times when feminism is in broad media discussion, where being beautiful, demure and housewife have become characteristics that bring personalities to magazine covers and label them as the ideal standard; In a moment when this theme is portrayed in the most important test of the country and yet the number of violence against women increases gradually and daily. Allied to facts like these, cases of harassment and abuse against the female sex that are printed in several newspapers, it’s seen then the glaring need to talk about gender and feminism. The aim of this paper is to question the discussion of gender and feminism within the Comics (HQ’s) with the help of the USA magazine Ms. Magazine, considered the first feminist magazine. This because never before is found the use of superheroes as a differential in the understanding of feminism and in gender issues.