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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.
List of contents
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
About the author
Andrew L. Grunzke is associate professor of education at Mercer University.
Summary
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.
