Amazons in the Digital Era

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List of Contributors

Introduction. Viral Amazons: The first Influencers in History, Arturo Sanchez Sanz (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)

Part One: Marginalisation and Hypersexualisation
1. Amazon Creation Across Female and Male Centred Texts, Connie Skibinski (Newcastle University, Australia) and Anneka Rene (Auckland University, New Zealand)
2. The Sexual Katabasis of a 90s Amazon: Sex-Positivity and the Male Gaze in Artemis: Requiem (1996), Carly Maris (Wilmington College, USA)
3. Where are the Amazons? Absences and Othering of Female and Feminine Agency in Audiovisual Adaptations of the Trojan War Narrative, Christine Lehnen (University of Manchester, UK)
4. The Myth of the Amazons is Always in Fashion, Giulia Corrente (Universita degli studi Roma Tre, Italy)
5. Controllers and Chainmail: Amazon' Costuming in Contemporary Video Games, Freya Fenton (University of Leicester, UK)
6. Artbook Muses: Hypersexualised Amazons through the Francophone bande dessin©, Arturo Sanchez Sanz (Isabel I de Castilla University and Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)

Part Two: Heroic Warrior Women
7. Playing the Amazons and Warrior Women in Tabletop Games, Amy Norgard (Truman State University, USA)
8. Wonder Women: Searching for Amazons in Myth, Archaeology and Contemporary Media, Martine Diepenbroek (Johannesburg University, South Africa)
9. The Coloniality of Power in the Reception of the Amazons in the Brazilian Wonder Woman, Carlos Eduardo da Costa Campos (Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil) and Luis Filipe Bantim de Assump§£o (University of Vassouras, Brazil)
10. Native American Amazons: Indigenizing Wonder Woman and Beyond, Kendall Lovely (University of California Santa Barbara, USA)
11. Amazons in Wonderland: The Persistence of Memory in Dal­'s Dreams, Arturo Sanchez Sanz (Isabel I de Castilla University and Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
12. Surviving a World of Men: Indigenous African Resistance and the Legacy of Amazonian Reception in The Woman King (2022), Natalie Swain (University of Winnipeg, Canada) and Evelyn N. Mayanja (Carleton University, Canada)

Part Three: LGBTQIA+ and Feminist Icons
13. 'Badass Babes' in Pop Culture - A New Embodiment?, Kay Buttfield (University of the Sunshine Coast and University of Tasmania, Australia)
14. The Documentary Genre as a Social Shaper: The Representation of Amazon Women as Feminist Icons in Contemporary Documentary Films, Almudena Mu±oz Gallego (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
15. "Amazons" for War and Peace: XXI Centuries Movements for Women's Rights in Ukraine, Arturo Sanchez Sanz (Isabel I de Castilla University and Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
16. The New Ukrainian Amazons: Fighting From Herakles to Putin, Arturo Sanchez Sanz (Isabel I de Castilla University and Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)

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