![]() ![]() ![]() Twins, Twinship, and Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Strange Case of Dr. Peter Pan, Or the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up. Accessed on 12 February 2020.īarrie, J.M. Developing Batwoman’s Journey w/Greg Rucka. This relationship is a far departure from the relationship between the original Batwoman and Batman.Īrrant, Chris. In later versions of Kate Kane’s backstory, including the Batwoman television series (Dries 2019-), Bruce Wayne is Kate Kane’s cousin. For a summary of the original Batwoman’s storylines and their relationship to mid-twentieth-century feminism, see Perdigao ( 2018, 126–27). The introduction of the first Batwoman provided not only a girlfriend to Batman and potential mother figure to his young sidekick Robin but also eventually a love interest for Robin in the form of Batwoman’s niece, thereby securing the heterosexuality of both Batman and Robin. In Seduction of the Innocent, psychiatrist Fredric Wertham was particularly critical of superhero comics and what he perceived as a lack of family structure negative, un-feminine depictions of women and implied homosexuality in their narratives and images ( 1954, 190–93 and 233–37). ![]() The original Batwoman (Kathy Kane) was created as a love interest for Batman/Bruce Wayne in the 1950s in response to concerns about the content of comics and their effects on children. ![]()
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