Superheroes in the Streets

Kimberly Wedeven Segall is professor of literature and cultural studies at Seattle Pacific University, and she is affiliate faculty of gender, women, and sexuality studies at the University of Washington. She is author of Performing Democracy in Iraq and South Africa: Gender, Media, and Resistance.

Preface Introduction Chapter 1: Ms. Marvel's Resistance Icon Chapter 2: Online Sport Protest: Nike (Hijabi) Wonder Women Chapter 3: Digital Revolts and Riveters Chapter 4: Grassroots Icons: Facebook Resistance Chapter 5: Solidarity Icons: A Virtual Revolution Conclusion: Digitalizing Wonder Women Notes Bibliography Index

Muslim women play an important part in American activism but are rarely depicted in positions of power. Superheroes in the Streets points directly to the diminished reputation of those women activists and highlights exactly why their stories matter, especially in the digital world." - Sara Shaban, author of Iranian Feminism and Transnational Ethics in Media Discourse "Segall has done an astounding job of mining various disciplinary archives and putting them in conversation with one another. Superheroes in the Streets is a commendable study of icons and superheroes as they relate to the activism of Muslim American women." - Hussein Rashid, coeditor of Ms. Marvel's America: No Normal and coexecutive producer of "The Secret History of Muslims in America"