aspeers 18 (2025)

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Contents

Peter Hintz
Stefan Schubert		Foreword
2025 EditorsIntroduction: American (Anti-)Heroes
Maximilian PottCooking in Crisis: Everyday Heroism in Blanche Armwood Perkins’s Cookbook Food Conservation in the Home
Saed TajibaevThe American Dream
Sequana BirkelHeroic Leadership and Populism in the Twenty-First Century: The Populist Superhero Persona of Donald Trump
Maya ObermannFences
Lisa BucheggerSympathy for the Witch: The Transformation from Villain to Anti-Heroine in Disney’s Maleficent (2014)
Eliah BrockhausWinged Rat
Leonie M. J. KratzensteinQueer Confinement and the Rural American Camp in The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Marv SpäthWho Sold the World
Natalie WarremannGel Manicures, a Thirty-Thousand-Dollar Stove, and Gender Oppression: The Lives of Mormon Influencers
Prof. Dr. Carmen BirkleWomen Who Rocked the World: Heroines of Medicine in Nineteenth-Century US America

Editorial Team

The 2025 editors are Lara Dawurske, James Z. Dresig, Johanna Friedrichsen, Serëzha Goncharov, Robert Hayes II, Erna J. Herzmann, Jana Luckhardt, Lilian Viktoria Obermann, Charlyn Rachner, Corwin K. M. Sandiford, Cosima Stief, Vince Thiemicke, and Joanna Xerinda.

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