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 li...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Grunzke, Andrew L. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2020]
Series:Education and popular culture.
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Table of Contents:
  • Redemption, collaboration, and compassion: education and the construction of the female superhero identity
  • How sorority girls become Wonder Women: higher education, comic books, and female empowerment during the Second World War
  • From Holliday girls to Angels: second-wave feminism meets prime-time television
  • 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
  • The cyborg and the post-human schoolteacher: The bionic woman and 1970s preime-time feminism
  • High school is Hell: Buff the Vampire Slayer as feminist education at the turn of the millennium.