The vision of the feminine in 3 super heroines cartoon: Wonder Woman, Catwoman and Black Widow

Abstract

By comics, a paraliterary gender, societies, at the beginning of XXI century, raise issues that are in the imagination, as the role of women in society. Comics, being a form of neo-oral narrative, have great educational potential and can address issues ranging from the social to the political. In addition, American comics, forties, fifties and sixties, raised sexuality in a concrete way and although this representation was not particularly significant in itself, if I was reinforced by literature, music and film, which contributed to help the audience to interpret reality. From primitive societies, patriarchal power was always concerned about the image of women, and their constant reversibility, which made the power of female beauty, something mythical and unattainable. Centuries later, with the establishment of the consumer society, the emergence of the “pin-up girls”, the “flappers” and then the superheroine in the media would resume this character of seduction and reversibility of the female image. Thus three characters of superheroes, Wonder Woman, Catwoman and Black Widow, which emerged from the comic books, and now are famous in other media, confirm this fact.