Author: Carol A. Strickland
Publisher: Carol A. Strickland
ISBN: 194131838X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
She’s the Amazing Amazon! The celebrated champion of her people! She’s WONDER WOMAN! And she’s the greatest superhero this world has ever seen. A lifelong fan lays out WW’s legend for those who want to know her better. Brush up on the important people, equipment, and lessons that Princess Diana has shown us through the years. Lively chapters show how she came to be, her powers, her friends… and who the rogues are who make up her enemies list. Sometimes her biggest adversaries have been the members of her creative staff, who too often had disrespect for their leading lady, were clueless about who she is, or were creatively restricted by corporate marketing decisions. Nevertheless, she persists. This volume even attempts to unravel the history of Wonder Woman’s sister, Donna Troy. (Have your aspirin ready.) Sometimes wacky, sometimes serious – and ALWAYS opinionated– this book reveals how Wonder Woman breaks out of patriarchy’s restrictive mold to demonstrate that everyone can stand strong, kind, empowered, and entirely their truthful selves in today’s world. All they need is a hero to show them the way: WONDER WOMAN!
Star-Spangled Panties
Author: Carol A. Strickland
Publisher: Carol A. Strickland
ISBN: 194131838X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
She’s the Amazing Amazon! The celebrated champion of her people! She’s WONDER WOMAN! And she’s the greatest superhero this world has ever seen. A lifelong fan lays out WW’s legend for those who want to know her better. Brush up on the important people, equipment, and lessons that Princess Diana has shown us through the years. Lively chapters show how she came to be, her powers, her friends… and who the rogues are who make up her enemies list. Sometimes her biggest adversaries have been the members of her creative staff, who too often had disrespect for their leading lady, were clueless about who she is, or were creatively restricted by corporate marketing decisions. Nevertheless, she persists. This volume even attempts to unravel the history of Wonder Woman’s sister, Donna Troy. (Have your aspirin ready.) Sometimes wacky, sometimes serious – and ALWAYS opinionated– this book reveals how Wonder Woman breaks out of patriarchy’s restrictive mold to demonstrate that everyone can stand strong, kind, empowered, and entirely their truthful selves in today’s world. All they need is a hero to show them the way: WONDER WOMAN!
Publisher: Carol A. Strickland
ISBN: 194131838X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
She’s the Amazing Amazon! The celebrated champion of her people! She’s WONDER WOMAN! And she’s the greatest superhero this world has ever seen. A lifelong fan lays out WW’s legend for those who want to know her better. Brush up on the important people, equipment, and lessons that Princess Diana has shown us through the years. Lively chapters show how she came to be, her powers, her friends… and who the rogues are who make up her enemies list. Sometimes her biggest adversaries have been the members of her creative staff, who too often had disrespect for their leading lady, were clueless about who she is, or were creatively restricted by corporate marketing decisions. Nevertheless, she persists. This volume even attempts to unravel the history of Wonder Woman’s sister, Donna Troy. (Have your aspirin ready.) Sometimes wacky, sometimes serious – and ALWAYS opinionated– this book reveals how Wonder Woman breaks out of patriarchy’s restrictive mold to demonstrate that everyone can stand strong, kind, empowered, and entirely their truthful selves in today’s world. All they need is a hero to show them the way: WONDER WOMAN!
The Supergirls
Author: Mike Madrid
Publisher: Exterminating Angel Press
ISBN: 1935259350
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
"Mike Madrid is doing God's work. . . . mak[ing] accessible a lost, heady land of female adventure." —ComicsAlliance "Sharp and lively . . . [Madrid] clearly loves this stuff. And he's enough of a historian to be able to trace the ways in which the portrayal of sirens and supergirls has echoed society's ever-changing feelings about women and sex."—Entertainment Weekly "A long overdue tribute to [those] fabulous fighting females." —Stan Lee Mike Madrid has become known as a champion of women in comics and as the expert in Golden Age female characters. And now here is where it all began, as informative and entertaining as ever, in a revised and updated edition, including new illustrations and a new introduction, as well as an afterword bringing us up-to-date on what's happening with women in comics now. Mike Madrid is the author of Divas, Dames & Daredevils: Lost Heroines of Golden Age Comics; Vixens, Vamps & Vipers: Lost Villainesses of Golden Age Comics; and the original The Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines, an NPR "Best Book To Share With Your Friends" and American Library Association Amelia Bloomer Project Notable Book. A San Francisco native and lifelong fan of comic books and popular culture, Madrid also appears in the documentary Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines and is the illustrator of two of The History of Arcadia books: Lily the Silent and The Lizard Princess.
Publisher: Exterminating Angel Press
ISBN: 1935259350
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
"Mike Madrid is doing God's work. . . . mak[ing] accessible a lost, heady land of female adventure." —ComicsAlliance "Sharp and lively . . . [Madrid] clearly loves this stuff. And he's enough of a historian to be able to trace the ways in which the portrayal of sirens and supergirls has echoed society's ever-changing feelings about women and sex."—Entertainment Weekly "A long overdue tribute to [those] fabulous fighting females." —Stan Lee Mike Madrid has become known as a champion of women in comics and as the expert in Golden Age female characters. And now here is where it all began, as informative and entertaining as ever, in a revised and updated edition, including new illustrations and a new introduction, as well as an afterword bringing us up-to-date on what's happening with women in comics now. Mike Madrid is the author of Divas, Dames & Daredevils: Lost Heroines of Golden Age Comics; Vixens, Vamps & Vipers: Lost Villainesses of Golden Age Comics; and the original The Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines, an NPR "Best Book To Share With Your Friends" and American Library Association Amelia Bloomer Project Notable Book. A San Francisco native and lifelong fan of comic books and popular culture, Madrid also appears in the documentary Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines and is the illustrator of two of The History of Arcadia books: Lily the Silent and The Lizard Princess.
She
Author: H. Rider Haggard
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0307808025
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
A runaway bestseller on its publication in 1887, H. Rider Haggard’s She is a Victorian thrill ride of a novel, featuring a lost African kingdom ruled by a mysterious, implacable queen; ferocious wildlife and yawning abysses; and an eerie love story that spans two thousand years. She has bewitched readers from Freud and Jung to C. S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien; in her Introduction to this Modern Library Paperback Classic—which includes period illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen and Charles H. M. Kerr—Margaret Atwood asserts that the awe-inspiring Ayesha, “She-who-must-be-obeyed,” is “a permanent feature of the human imagination.”
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0307808025
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
A runaway bestseller on its publication in 1887, H. Rider Haggard’s She is a Victorian thrill ride of a novel, featuring a lost African kingdom ruled by a mysterious, implacable queen; ferocious wildlife and yawning abysses; and an eerie love story that spans two thousand years. She has bewitched readers from Freud and Jung to C. S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien; in her Introduction to this Modern Library Paperback Classic—which includes period illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen and Charles H. M. Kerr—Margaret Atwood asserts that the awe-inspiring Ayesha, “She-who-must-be-obeyed,” is “a permanent feature of the human imagination.”
Star-Spangled Panties
Author: Carol A. Strickland
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781941318539
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
You need some Wonder Woman in your life! Fighting for our rights! Through the years Wonder Woman has shown us to be proud of who we truly are. To stand joyfully for principles that form our very hearts and who we want to be. To take a moment before using violence to solve a problem, and instead come up with a healing, win-win solution. Now let lifelong WW fan Carol Strickland show you how she came to do that: how the character was concocted, how she was presented as a full-blown feminist in a comics world that was very much not so. Discover: - That spectacular Wonder costume and how it's changed - Is there really a need for perma-boyfriend Steve Trevor? - WW's younger sister, Donna Troy - Her most overused (yawn) villain - Does eighty-year-old Wondie still hold a place in the 21st century? Smash the patriarchy! Wonder Woman will save the world! Join her in her cause and buy now! "An exuberant manifesto about the Amazon's meaning and depiction." -BookLife Reviews
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781941318539
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
You need some Wonder Woman in your life! Fighting for our rights! Through the years Wonder Woman has shown us to be proud of who we truly are. To stand joyfully for principles that form our very hearts and who we want to be. To take a moment before using violence to solve a problem, and instead come up with a healing, win-win solution. Now let lifelong WW fan Carol Strickland show you how she came to do that: how the character was concocted, how she was presented as a full-blown feminist in a comics world that was very much not so. Discover: - That spectacular Wonder costume and how it's changed - Is there really a need for perma-boyfriend Steve Trevor? - WW's younger sister, Donna Troy - Her most overused (yawn) villain - Does eighty-year-old Wondie still hold a place in the 21st century? Smash the patriarchy! Wonder Woman will save the world! Join her in her cause and buy now! "An exuberant manifesto about the Amazon's meaning and depiction." -BookLife Reviews
Explorations 5
Author: E S Carpenter
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1620324318
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication, principally edited by Edmund Carpenter and Marshall McLuhan, was the first postwar journal to engage directly with the new "grammars" of mid-century new media of communication. Launched in Toronto in 1953, at the very moment that television made its national debut in Canada, Explorations presented a mosaic of approaches to contemporary media culture and became the site in which McLuhan and Carpenter first formulated their most striking insights about new media in the electric age. The extraordinary breadth of contributions to Explorations from leading thinkers across the arts, humanities, social and natural sciences makes this journal a founding publication in the now burgeoning field of media studies. Originally funded by a Ford Foundation grant, the eight coedited issues of Explorations ran from 1953 to 1957 and are reprinted here for the first time in sixty years. For a listing of all articles in this series, refer to the Summaries at the end of the series introduction.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1620324318
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication, principally edited by Edmund Carpenter and Marshall McLuhan, was the first postwar journal to engage directly with the new "grammars" of mid-century new media of communication. Launched in Toronto in 1953, at the very moment that television made its national debut in Canada, Explorations presented a mosaic of approaches to contemporary media culture and became the site in which McLuhan and Carpenter first formulated their most striking insights about new media in the electric age. The extraordinary breadth of contributions to Explorations from leading thinkers across the arts, humanities, social and natural sciences makes this journal a founding publication in the now burgeoning field of media studies. Originally funded by a Ford Foundation grant, the eight coedited issues of Explorations ran from 1953 to 1957 and are reprinted here for the first time in sixty years. For a listing of all articles in this series, refer to the Summaries at the end of the series introduction.
She
Author: Rider Haggard
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448161975
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Read the thrilling Victorian blockbuster, with an introduction from Booker prize-winning author Margaret Atwood. A note from The Editor: I feel it incumbent upon me to explain how this wonderful and mysterious history found its way into my hands. I received a letter and two parcels- one a manuscript, the other containing a scarab and an ancient sherd - from a brief acquaintance of mine called Mr Horace Holly. Mr Holly and his ward Leo Vincey had passed through a most uncommon African adventure, a tale of a nature so marvellous that I fear the reader might disbelieve it. To me the story seems to bear the stamp of truth upon its face. But I must leave the reader to form his own judgment... And with this explanation I introduce the world to Ayesha - She-who-must-be-obeyed - and the Caves of Kôr.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448161975
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Read the thrilling Victorian blockbuster, with an introduction from Booker prize-winning author Margaret Atwood. A note from The Editor: I feel it incumbent upon me to explain how this wonderful and mysterious history found its way into my hands. I received a letter and two parcels- one a manuscript, the other containing a scarab and an ancient sherd - from a brief acquaintance of mine called Mr Horace Holly. Mr Holly and his ward Leo Vincey had passed through a most uncommon African adventure, a tale of a nature so marvellous that I fear the reader might disbelieve it. To me the story seems to bear the stamp of truth upon its face. But I must leave the reader to form his own judgment... And with this explanation I introduce the world to Ayesha - She-who-must-be-obeyed - and the Caves of Kôr.
Magno Girl
Author: Joe Canzano
Publisher: Happy Joe Control
ISBN: 0990636518
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
When a Manhattan pizza maker is found dead in his own dough, Magno Girl enlists the aid of her biker ninja boyfriend to help solve the crime—and quickly discovers there’s more to the pie than meets the eye, including a sinister plot that spans the globe. Magno Girl leaps into action. After all, she can fly, she can fight, and she can use her fearsome superpower, the “Gaze of the Guilt,” to bring a hardened criminal to his knees. But the road ahead is hard. The city’s other superheroes despise her, and the cops don’t want her around, and her own mom won’t stop spitting out advice about marrying a “respectable guy” and trading in her crime-fighting career for a baby carriage—but is she attracted to “respectable guys”? And is she interested in emotional commitment? And will finding real love be her biggest challenge of all?
Publisher: Happy Joe Control
ISBN: 0990636518
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
When a Manhattan pizza maker is found dead in his own dough, Magno Girl enlists the aid of her biker ninja boyfriend to help solve the crime—and quickly discovers there’s more to the pie than meets the eye, including a sinister plot that spans the globe. Magno Girl leaps into action. After all, she can fly, she can fight, and she can use her fearsome superpower, the “Gaze of the Guilt,” to bring a hardened criminal to his knees. But the road ahead is hard. The city’s other superheroes despise her, and the cops don’t want her around, and her own mom won’t stop spitting out advice about marrying a “respectable guy” and trading in her crime-fighting career for a baby carriage—but is she attracted to “respectable guys”? And is she interested in emotional commitment? And will finding real love be her biggest challenge of all?
Andropia
Author: Scott William Foley
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1450222366
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Question not a perfect world. Question ... not at all. Such is the fundamental dilemma explored in Andropia. Andropia is the world's last city, a utopia for its citizens known as Andropians. They exist to please the Maker, he who created them in his floating Citadel. Andropians cheerfully question nothing as they go about unnecessarily purifying air, cleaning water, and raising livestock. When Isaac arrives from the Citadel, his many questions lead other Andropians to compare him to the deviant Amelia. Soon Amelia and Isaac's paths cross, and she persuades him to help rescue their people. For she long ago discovered a suspected harbinger of destruction, an object that could mean the end of life as they know it. Isaac and Amelia invade the Citadel and confront the Maker, but nothing could have prepared them for what they learn and their final fates. Tales of Andropia is a series of eight short stories illuminating significant moments of the novella such as the arrival of the Maker, the birth of Andropia, the unwavering pursuit of purpose among noteworthy Andropians, and the moment Andropia irrevocably changes forevermore.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1450222366
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Question not a perfect world. Question ... not at all. Such is the fundamental dilemma explored in Andropia. Andropia is the world's last city, a utopia for its citizens known as Andropians. They exist to please the Maker, he who created them in his floating Citadel. Andropians cheerfully question nothing as they go about unnecessarily purifying air, cleaning water, and raising livestock. When Isaac arrives from the Citadel, his many questions lead other Andropians to compare him to the deviant Amelia. Soon Amelia and Isaac's paths cross, and she persuades him to help rescue their people. For she long ago discovered a suspected harbinger of destruction, an object that could mean the end of life as they know it. Isaac and Amelia invade the Citadel and confront the Maker, but nothing could have prepared them for what they learn and their final fates. Tales of Andropia is a series of eight short stories illuminating significant moments of the novella such as the arrival of the Maker, the birth of Andropia, the unwavering pursuit of purpose among noteworthy Andropians, and the moment Andropia irrevocably changes forevermore.
Sex and God at Yale
Author: Nathan Harden
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312617909
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
In higher-ed institutions, none holds more clout than Yale University. Yet the school has become a full-fledged moral battleground. 2009 Yale graduate Harden offers a provocative account of what really goes on inside, one that will shock any parent of a college-bound student.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312617909
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
In higher-ed institutions, none holds more clout than Yale University. Yet the school has become a full-fledged moral battleground. 2009 Yale graduate Harden offers a provocative account of what really goes on inside, one that will shock any parent of a college-bound student.
The Star-Spangled Banner
Author: Denise Duhamel
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809383322
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
The Star-Spangled Banner, Denise Duhamel's sixth book of poems, is about falling in love, American-style, with someone who is not American. In the title poem, a small American girl mishears the first line of "The Star-Spangled Banner" as "José, can you see?", which leads her to imagine a foreign lover of an American woman dressed in a star-spangled gown. The misunderstandings caused by language recur throughout the book: contemplating what "yes" means in different cultures; watching Nickelodeon's "Nick at Nite" with a husband who grew up in the Philippines and never saw The Patty Duke Show; misreading another poet's title "The Difference Between Pepsi and Coke" as "The Difference Between Pepsi and Pope" and concluding that "Pepsi is all for premarital sex. / The Pope won't stain your teeth." Misunderstandings also abound as characters mingle with others from different classes. In "Cockroaches," a father-in-law refers to budget-minded American college students backpacking in Europe as cockroaches, not realizing his daughter-in-law was once, not so long ago, such a student/roach herself. With welcome levity and refreshing irreverence, The Star-Spangled Banner addresses issues of ethnicity, class, and gender in America.
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809383322
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
The Star-Spangled Banner, Denise Duhamel's sixth book of poems, is about falling in love, American-style, with someone who is not American. In the title poem, a small American girl mishears the first line of "The Star-Spangled Banner" as "José, can you see?", which leads her to imagine a foreign lover of an American woman dressed in a star-spangled gown. The misunderstandings caused by language recur throughout the book: contemplating what "yes" means in different cultures; watching Nickelodeon's "Nick at Nite" with a husband who grew up in the Philippines and never saw The Patty Duke Show; misreading another poet's title "The Difference Between Pepsi and Coke" as "The Difference Between Pepsi and Pope" and concluding that "Pepsi is all for premarital sex. / The Pope won't stain your teeth." Misunderstandings also abound as characters mingle with others from different classes. In "Cockroaches," a father-in-law refers to budget-minded American college students backpacking in Europe as cockroaches, not realizing his daughter-in-law was once, not so long ago, such a student/roach herself. With welcome levity and refreshing irreverence, The Star-Spangled Banner addresses issues of ethnicity, class, and gender in America.