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.

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 the University of Guam.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew L. Grunzke, Grunzke Andrew L.
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2023
• EAN: 9781498596862
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-9686-2
• No. of pages: 164
• Series: Education and Popular Culture
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); 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