Introduction - Wondering about Wonder Women of Contemporary American Poetry
Chapter 1 - Adrienne Rich's Snapshot of a Daughter-In-Law: The Postwar Photos and the Power of Feminist Reframing
Chapter 2 - From Fragility to Heroic Strength: Mapping the Female Body in Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose
Chapter 3 - Diving into SEEK: Adrienne Rich and the Social Movements at the City College of New York, 1968-1974
Chapter 4 - "Everyone. For a Moment": Adrienne Rich's Public Poetics as Heroism
Chapter 5 - Superheroic Subversion through Music and Movement in Cotrez's "Samba is Power"
Chapter 6 - Vision/Performance/Sound: A Body "Doubling into Woman-hood" in the Poetics of Jayne Cortez
Chapter 7 - "Drums Everywhere Drums": Questioning Object Violence in Jayne Cortez's Jazz Fan Looks Back
Chapter 8 - Being New York City: The Feminist Audacity of Jayne Cortez's Urban Poetry
The book examines the rise of the American popular-culture female superhero-notably, Wonder Woman-exploring the textuality of female-poetic activism through this superhero theme.
Edited by Laura Hinton - Contributions by Laura Hinton; Renee M. Kingan; Linda Kinnahan; Deborah Mix; Kirsten Bartholomew Ortega; Conor Tomas Reed; Jennifer D. Ryan-Bryant; Ellen McGrath Smith and Linda Stein