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.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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