f Of goddesses and women: Towards a super-empowered female hero

This article explores the representation of Indian female superheroes in selected Indian comic books that have been published in recent years (1998–2016). It argues that these superheroines are actively engaged in negotiating and challenging gender stereotypes and cultural formulations of the female body. Through these representations, a transgressive agency of a female superhero is being constructed in a popcultural space where idealized mythological and nationalistic framing from popular Indian comic book traditions, such as the Amar Chitra Katha comic book series, was previously the norm.