Women in Refrigerators: Gail Simone's Prominence in the Mainstream of American Comics

Abstract

The work pays attention to the female presence in the production of comics in the mainstream of the United States market at the turn of the millennium passage. Centered on the feminist activist role of Gail Simone, it is intended to articulate a Women´s History in the work scenario and production of critical narratives in superhero comics. In March 1999 Gail Simone together with a group of feminists founded the Women in Refrigerators page, where they produce lists of narratives and characters that make use of the appeal of gender violence to justify dramas and glories of male characters. In this way, the dialogues about gender, representations and performances, inserted in Women's History Studies is crucial. In an epistemological trajectory that inserts biography and daily life into gender studies and the historical processes that are involved, in debates promoted with Joan Scott, Michelle Perrot, Louise Tilly, Judith Butler, bell hooks, among others.