Jessica Jones, Scarred Superhero

Tim Rayborn is a historian, medievalist, and musician, with a Ph.D. from the University of Leeds in England. He writes on history and on the arts, and lives in Berkeley, California. Abigail Keyes is a writer and researcher with a background in performance studies and wellness. She lives in Berkeley, California.

Table of Contents


Foreword: The Not Quite Super Jessica Jones (Robert G. Weiner)

Introduction (Tim Rayborn and Abigail Keyes)

“Even you can break”: Jessica Jones as Femme Fatale (Daniel Binns)

Elite and Famous: Subverting Gender in the Marvel Universe with Jessica Jones (Nicholas William Moll)

“AKA Occasionally I give a damn”: Mirrored Archetypes

and Gender Power in Jessica Jones (Aleah Kiley and Zak Roman)

Jessica Jones: Gender and the Marvel Phenomenon (Lillian Céspedes González)

AKA Marvel Does Darkness: Jessica Jones, Rape Allegories and the Netflix Approach to Superheroes (CarrieLynn D. Reinhard and Christopher J. Olson)

Sobriety Blows: Whiskey, Trauma and Coping in Netflix’s

Jessica Jones (Janis Breckenridge)

Jessica Jones, Women and Alcohol Use Disorders (Sharon Packer)

Jessica Jones’s Feminism: AKA Alias Gets a ­Fixed-It (Melissa C. Johnson)

The Haunted Hero: The Performance of Trauma in Jessica Jones (Melissa Wehler)

Integrity, Family and Consent: The Ontological Angst of Jessica Jones (Brian Fuller and Emily D. Edwards)

From the Hellmouth to Hell’s Kitchen: Analyzing Aesthetics of Women Survivors and Spaces in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Jessica Jones (Courtney Lee Weida)

Battling Bluebeard, Fighting for Hope: The Heroine’s Journey (Valerie Estelle Frankel)

“Is that real or is it just in my head?” “Both”: Chronotopal Representations of Patriarchal Villainy and the Feminist Antihero in Marvel’s Jessica Jones (Justin Wigard)

About the Contributors

Index