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 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.

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