Andrew L. Grunzke

Education and the Female Superhero

Slayers, Cyborgs, Sorority Sisters, and Schoolteachers

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Exploring a variety of female superhero narratives, including Wonder Woman comics and television shows like The Secrets of Isis, The Bionic Woman, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, this book argues that twentieth-century superheroine stories historically depicted education as the path to female liberation and empowerment.

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Produktdetails

• Education and Popular Culture
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 398g
• ISBN-13: 9781498596848
• ISBN-10: 1498596843
• Artikelnr.: 57753860

Autorenporträt

By Andrew L. Grunzke

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: Redemption, Collaboration, and Compassion: Education and the
Construction of the Female Superhero Identity Chapter Two: How Sorority
Girls Became Wonder Women: Higher Education, Comic Books, and Female
Empowerment during the Second World War Chapter Three: from Holliday Girls
to Angels: Second Wave Feminism Meets Prime Time Television Chapter Four:
She Became a Dual Person: Children's Television Program The Secrets of Isis
and the Teacher as Alter-Ego of the Female Warrior of the 1970s Chapter
Five: The Cyborg and the Post-Human Schoolteacher: The Bionic Woman and
1970's Prime Time Feminism Chapter Six: High School Is Hell: Buffy the
Vampire Slayer as Feminist Education at the Turn of the Millennium