Carolyn Cocca is the author of Superwomen: Gender, Power, and Representation, and some articles on gender and superheroes–like, this one about Wonder Woman: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/humanrights/2015/02/02/comics-and-human-rights-wonder-woman-and-the-trickiness-of-superheroines/ and this longer and more jargon-filled one about Barbara Gordon: http://www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/archives/v7_4/cocca/. She is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics, Economics, and Law at the State University of New York, College at Old Westbury.