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Title:

Wonder Woman and philosophy : the Amazonian mystique / edited by Jacob M. Held.

Publisher:

Wiley Blackwell,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xix, 215 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Wonder Woman--(Fictitious character)
Comic books, strips, etc--Moral and ethical aspects.
Philosophy in literature.
Wonder Woman--(Fictitious character)
Comic books, strips, etc.--Moral and ethical aspects.
Philosophy in literature.

Other Authors:

Held, Jacob M., 1977- editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

18. Golden Lassos and logical paradoxes / Roy T. Cook and Nathan Kellen. Part I. You are a Wonder Women. 1. Becoming a (Wonder) Woman : Feminism, nationalism, and the ambiguity of female identity / J. Lenore Wright ; 2. The God of War is wearing what? Gender in the New 52 / Sarah K. Donovan ; 3. Wonder Woman vs. Harley Quinn : The paradox of the mortal hero / Jill Hernandez and Allie Hernandez ; 4. Great Hera! Considering Wonder Woman's super heroism / Trip McCrossin -- Part II. Dispatches from man's world. 5. Wonder Woman : Feminist faux pas? / Andrea Zanin ; 6. Feminist symbol or fetish? Žižek, Wonder Woman, and final crisis / Matthew William Drake ; 7. When Clark met Diana : Friendship and romance in comics / Matthew A. Hoffman and Sara Kolmes -- Part III. When I deal with them, I deal with them. 8. Bound to face the truth : The ethics of using Wonder Woman's lasso / Melanie Johnson-Moxley ; 9. "What I had to do" : The ethics of Wonder Woman's execution of Maxwell Lord / Mark D. White ; 10. Can a warrior care? Wonder Woman and the improbable intersection of care ethics and bushido / Steve Bein ; 11. Wonder Woman : Saving lives through just torture? / Adam Barkman and Sabina Tokbergenova ; 12. Wonder Woman winning with words : A paragon of wisdom, disarming threats one at a time ... / Francis Tobienne Jr. -- Part IV. God(s), country, sorority. 13. Wonder Woman, worship, and gods almighty : Purpose in submission to loving authority / Jacob M. Held ; 14. Merciful Mineva in a modern Metropolis / Dennis Knepp ; 15. Wonder Woman and patriarchy : From Temyscira's Amazons to Wittig's Guérrillères / Mónica Cano Abadía -- Part V. Tying up loose ends. 16. The Lasso of Truth? / James Edwin Mahon ; 17. Loving lassos : Wonder Woman, kink, and care / Maria Chavez, Chris Gavaler, and Nathaniel Goldberg ; 18. Golden Lassos and logical paradoxes / Roy T. Cook and Nathan Kellen.

Series:

The Blackwell philosophy and popculture series

ISBN:

1119280753
9781119280750

OCLC:

(OCoLC)986787341

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)