{"id":2889,"date":"2018-08-21T09:12:38","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T08:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/?p=2889"},"modified":"2018-08-21T09:12:38","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T08:12:38","slug":"100-women-the-artist-redrawing-sexist-comic-book-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/2018\/08\/21\/100-women-the-artist-redrawing-sexist-comic-book-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"100 Women: The artist redrawing &#8216;sexist&#8217; comic book covers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/660\/cpsprodpb\/13A58\/production\/_102927408_004b.jpg\" alt=\"Comic cover by Shreya Arora showing an issue of The Sensational She-Hulk (left), with Shreya Arora's reimagination (right)\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">An artist in India is challenging sexist drawings of women in comic books by parodying them using male heroes in poses typically associated with women.<\/p>\n<p>She-Hulk has superhuman strength and speed and is one of the most formidable hand-to-hand combatants in the Marvel world.<\/p>\n<p>Like Hulk, not only does she have physical power, she&#8217;s also completely green.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, on a 1991 comic book cover, she is shown in a seductive pose, wearing a G-string bikini, with her curves sharply accentuated.<\/p>\n<p>Indian artist Shreya Arora was shocked when she saw the image.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For Hulk, the visual representation focuses on his strength. For She-Hulk, all we see is an emphasis on sexuality,&#8221; says Arora, who grew up reading comic books.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-45149478#\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An artist in India is challenging sexist drawings of women in comic books by parodying them using male heroes in poses typically associated with women. She-Hulk has superhuman strength and speed and is one of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}