Education and the Female Superhero - Slayers, Cyborgs, Sorority Sisters, and Schoolteachers

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Andrew L. Grunzke is Associate Professor of Education at the University of Guam.

Zusammenfassung

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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Andrew L Grunzke, Andrew L. Grunzke, Grunzke Andrew L.
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781498596848
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-9684-8
• Seiten: 164
• Serie: Education and Popular Culture
• Themen: Belletristik > Comic, Cartoon, Humor, Satire > Comic; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Superheroes, Philosophy & theory of education, Gender studies, gender groups, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women & girls, Graphic novels: superheroes & super-villains, Graphic novel / Comic book: super-heroes & super-villains