The Ages of the X-Men · Essays on the Children of the Atom in Changing Times by Darowski, Joseph J. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Introduction Origin of the Species: Popular Science, Dr. Hermann Muller and the X-Men

Terms and Fears Dr. X Education X-rays Results Conclusions WORKS CITED

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Superheroes in the Family The Commune as a Counterpoint X-Men and “Teen-Youth Culture” The X-Men as an Organized Deviant Group The Political Aim of the Commune X-Men: An Undergound Commune or a Middle-Class Subgroup? NOTE WORKS CITED

When Business Improved Art: The 1975 Relaunch of Marvel’s Mutant Heroes

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From Kitty to Cat: Kitty Pryde and the Phases of Feminism

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Days of Future Past: Segregation, Oppression and Technology in X-Men and America

Zeitgeist: Times They Are a-Changin’ Otherness: Fighting for a World That Hates and Fears Them Concentration Camps: The X-Men’s Dark Future, Our Dark Past Rise of the Sentinel: Technocracy and Dystopia Hope NOTES WORKS CITED

“Mutant hellspawn” or “more human than you?” The X-Men Respond to Televangelism

A Very Short Introduction to Religious Broadcasting The X-Men Respond to Televangelism NOTES WORKS CITED

Post-Shoah Literature Israel’s Collective Conscious: Shoah, Eichmann, and the Six Day War Magneto Becomes Jewish Reading the X-Men Post-Shoah NOTES WORKS CITED

Sexy Art, Speculative Commerce: The X-Men #1 Launch Extravaganza

A Motley Crew of Mutants Jim Lee’s X-Pool Party Speculation Politics and X-Men #1’s Omnipresence in Bargain Bins Nationwide WORKS CITED

Branded Can’t Go Around Him Colossus Unleashed Out of the Light and Into thy Father’s Shadow REFERENCES

Generation X: Mutants Made to Order

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What Happens “After Xavier”? Millennial Fears and the Age of Apocalypse

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Mutating Metaphors: Addressing the Limits of Biological Narratives of Sexuality

Biological Determinism The Legacy Virus The Mutant “Cure” WORKS CITED

Grant Morrison’s Mutants and the Post–9/11 Culture of Fear

Fear of a Two-Dimensional Other The Culture of Fear: A Background The Monolith Breaks Morrison Anticipates and Responds to 9/11 Jingoism and “Us” vs. “Them” Magneto Redefined Fallout and the Future NOTES WORKS CITED

From Columbine to Xavier’s: Restaging the Media Narrative as Superhero Fiction

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No Mutant Left Behind: Lessons from New X-Men: Academy X

Private and Gifted Wartime Tension Veiled? Faculty-Student Romance Bullying and School Violence Lessons Learned WORKS CITED

Autism and the Astonishing X-Men

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Prophet of Hope and Change: The Mutant Minority in the Age of Obama

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About the Contributors List of Names and Terms