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Education and the female superhero : slayers, cyborgs, sorority sisters, and schoolteachers
- Title
- Education and the female superhero : slayers, cyborgs, sorority sisters, and schoolteachers / Andrew L. Grunzke.
- Author
- Grunzke, Andrew L.
- Publication
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2020]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 21-322 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xii, 151 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- 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"--
- Series Statement
- Education and popular culture
- Uniform Title
- Education and popular culture.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-322
- ISBN
- 9781498596848
- 1498596843
- OCLC
- 1119643733
- Author
- Grunzke, Andrew L., author.
- Title
- Education and the female superhero : slayers, cyborgs, sorority sisters, and schoolteachers / Andrew L. Grunzke.
- Publisher
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2020]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Education and popular cultureEducation and popular culture.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-322