http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/batman Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Wed, 27 May 2026 10:53:54 -0400 Wed, 27 May 2026 10:53:54 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/312/superheroes-superpowers-and-sexuality By Rebecca A. Demarest - Superheroes have a strong influence in our society, and as such we should look at the messages that they  represent. To this end, I have examined the sexuality and gender roles that superheroes suggest through their appearance, the way they are written about, they way that they talk, the distribution of superpowers, and their relationships. I surveyed 63 Willamette University and Skyview Junior High students about their favorite superheroes and their reasons for liking that particular hero to begin my analysis, and branched from there to texts written by the companies who own the superheroes... Fri, 29 Oct 2010 10:31 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/312/superheroes-superpowers-and-sexuality http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/104/the-hero-we-create-911-and-the-reinvention-of-batman By Joshua C. Feblowitz - While creative interpretations of September 11th have taken on numerous and varied forms, no genre deals more transparently and explicitly with the themes of 9/11 than the superhero narrative. For decades, figures such as Superman, Batman, and Spiderman have been fighting evil and criminality in fictional worlds that re-imagine American society and offer clear and unequivocal ideas of justice. The fantastical stories of these superheroes generate frameworks within which endlessly complex social issues can be disentangled to reveal pure and didactic cultural ideals, collapsing moral shades of gray... Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:27 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/104/the-hero-we-create-911-and-the-reinvention-of-batman