Author: Valerie Estelle Frankel
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 147668409X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn, Shuri, and Black Widow. These four characters portray very different versions of women: the superheroine, the abuse victim, the fourth wave princess, and the spy, respectively. In this in-depth analysis of female characters in superhero media, the author begins by identifying ten eras of superhero media defined by the way they portray women. Following this, the various archetypes of superheroines are classified into four categories: boundary crossers, good girls, outcasts, and those that reclaim power. From Golden Age comics through today's hottest films, heroines have been surprisingly assertive, diverse, and remarkable in this celebration of all the archetypes.
Wonder Women and Bad Girls
Author: Valerie Estelle Frankel
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 147668409X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn, Shuri, and Black Widow. These four characters portray very different versions of women: the superheroine, the abuse victim, the fourth wave princess, and the spy, respectively. In this in-depth analysis of female characters in superhero media, the author begins by identifying ten eras of superhero media defined by the way they portray women. Following this, the various archetypes of superheroines are classified into four categories: boundary crossers, good girls, outcasts, and those that reclaim power. From Golden Age comics through today's hottest films, heroines have been surprisingly assertive, diverse, and remarkable in this celebration of all the archetypes.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 147668409X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn, Shuri, and Black Widow. These four characters portray very different versions of women: the superheroine, the abuse victim, the fourth wave princess, and the spy, respectively. In this in-depth analysis of female characters in superhero media, the author begins by identifying ten eras of superhero media defined by the way they portray women. Following this, the various archetypes of superheroines are classified into four categories: boundary crossers, good girls, outcasts, and those that reclaim power. From Golden Age comics through today's hottest films, heroines have been surprisingly assertive, diverse, and remarkable in this celebration of all the archetypes.
Suck It, Wonder Woman!
Author: Olivia Munn
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429924829
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Suck It, Wonder Woman! brings Olivia Munn's unique humor, incredible wit, and lightning-fast costume changes to a world that needs more scrapbooking, sea monkeys, and for the love of God, a freakin' hoverboard! In this hilarious collection you'll find essays like "thought's About My First Agent's Girlfriend's Vagina," wherein Olivia skewers what it's like to live in Hollywood. In "Sex: What You Can Do to Help Yourself Have More of It," she frankly gets down to the business of getting it on, including advice on how to appropriately wrap it and bag it. In "What to Do When the Robots Invade (Yes, When!)," Olivia offers valuable information on . . . what to do when the robots invade! And just when you thought she couldn't get any more geeky, she can. This book also includes such handy treasures as a timeline of great moments in Geek history, a flip book, an unofficial FAQ section, and a nifty (read: smokin') foldout poster.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429924829
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Suck It, Wonder Woman! brings Olivia Munn's unique humor, incredible wit, and lightning-fast costume changes to a world that needs more scrapbooking, sea monkeys, and for the love of God, a freakin' hoverboard! In this hilarious collection you'll find essays like "thought's About My First Agent's Girlfriend's Vagina," wherein Olivia skewers what it's like to live in Hollywood. In "Sex: What You Can Do to Help Yourself Have More of It," she frankly gets down to the business of getting it on, including advice on how to appropriately wrap it and bag it. In "What to Do When the Robots Invade (Yes, When!)," Olivia offers valuable information on . . . what to do when the robots invade! And just when you thought she couldn't get any more geeky, she can. This book also includes such handy treasures as a timeline of great moments in Geek history, a flip book, an unofficial FAQ section, and a nifty (read: smokin') foldout poster.
Wonder Woman by Mike Deodato
Author: Various
Publisher: DC Comics
ISBN: 1401269958
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Featuring the first part of the incredible Mike Deodato's (Amazing Spider-Man, Avengers) run on Wonder Woman, this collection includes some of the most beautifully rendered Amazons in comics history.Wonder Woman no more? In her mother's eyes, Diana has not lived up to the task of being Wonder Woman, and now the Queen of the Amazons sets in motion a contest where a new Wonder Woman will be crowned. But Diana sees things differently and decides to defend her position and take on any and all comers! Will she keep her place as Wonder Woman of the Amazons? Collects Wonder Woman #0, #85 and #90-93.
Publisher: DC Comics
ISBN: 1401269958
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Featuring the first part of the incredible Mike Deodato's (Amazing Spider-Man, Avengers) run on Wonder Woman, this collection includes some of the most beautifully rendered Amazons in comics history.Wonder Woman no more? In her mother's eyes, Diana has not lived up to the task of being Wonder Woman, and now the Queen of the Amazons sets in motion a contest where a new Wonder Woman will be crowned. But Diana sees things differently and decides to defend her position and take on any and all comers! Will she keep her place as Wonder Woman of the Amazons? Collects Wonder Woman #0, #85 and #90-93.
Superheroines and the Epic Journey
Author: Valerie Estelle Frankel
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476628017
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The heroine's journey echoes throughout ancient legend. Each young woman combats her dark side and emerges stronger. This quest is also a staple of American comic books. Wonder Woman with semi-divine powers gives us a new female-centered creation story. Batgirl, Batwoman and Black Widow discover their enemy is the dark mother or shadow twin, with the savagery they've rejected in themselves. Supergirl similarly struggles but keeps harmony with her sister. From Jessica Jones and Catwoman to the new superwomen of cutting-edge webcomics, each heroine must go into the dark, to become not a warrior but a savior. Women like Captain Marvel and Storm sacrifice all to join the ranks of superheroes, while their feminine powers and dazzling costumes reflect the most ancient tales.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476628017
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The heroine's journey echoes throughout ancient legend. Each young woman combats her dark side and emerges stronger. This quest is also a staple of American comic books. Wonder Woman with semi-divine powers gives us a new female-centered creation story. Batgirl, Batwoman and Black Widow discover their enemy is the dark mother or shadow twin, with the savagery they've rejected in themselves. Supergirl similarly struggles but keeps harmony with her sister. From Jessica Jones and Catwoman to the new superwomen of cutting-edge webcomics, each heroine must go into the dark, to become not a warrior but a savior. Women like Captain Marvel and Storm sacrifice all to join the ranks of superheroes, while their feminine powers and dazzling costumes reflect the most ancient tales.
Wonder Woman
Author: Donald Lemke
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 1479552445
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 7
Book Description
Follow the adventures of Wonder Woman, and learn new words at the same time.
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 1479552445
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 7
Book Description
Follow the adventures of Wonder Woman, and learn new words at the same time.
Bad Girls
Author: Camila Sosa Villada
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
ISBN: 1635422027
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award Gritty and unflinching, yet also tender, fantastical, and funny, a trans woman’s tale about finding a community on the margins. In Sarmiento Park, the green heart of Córdoba, a group of trans sex workers make their nightly rounds. When a cry comes from the dark, their leader, the 178-year-old Auntie Encarna, wades into the brambles to investigate and discovers a baby half dead from the cold. She quickly rallies the pack to save him, and they adopt the child into their fascinating surrogate family as they have so many other outcasts, including Camila. Sheltered in Auntie Encarna’s fabled pink house, they find a partial escape from the everyday threats of disease and violence, at the hands of clients, cops, and boyfriends. Telling their stories—of a mute young woman who transforms into a bird, of a Headless Man who fled his country’s wars—as well as her own journey from a toxic home in a small, poor town, Camila traces the life of this vibrant community throughout the 90s. Imbuing reality with the magic of a dark fairy tale, Bad Girls offers an intimate, nuanced portrait of trans coming-of-age that captures a universal sense of the strangeness of our bodies. It grips and entertains us while also challenging ideas about love, sexuality, gender, and identity.
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
ISBN: 1635422027
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award Gritty and unflinching, yet also tender, fantastical, and funny, a trans woman’s tale about finding a community on the margins. In Sarmiento Park, the green heart of Córdoba, a group of trans sex workers make their nightly rounds. When a cry comes from the dark, their leader, the 178-year-old Auntie Encarna, wades into the brambles to investigate and discovers a baby half dead from the cold. She quickly rallies the pack to save him, and they adopt the child into their fascinating surrogate family as they have so many other outcasts, including Camila. Sheltered in Auntie Encarna’s fabled pink house, they find a partial escape from the everyday threats of disease and violence, at the hands of clients, cops, and boyfriends. Telling their stories—of a mute young woman who transforms into a bird, of a Headless Man who fled his country’s wars—as well as her own journey from a toxic home in a small, poor town, Camila traces the life of this vibrant community throughout the 90s. Imbuing reality with the magic of a dark fairy tale, Bad Girls offers an intimate, nuanced portrait of trans coming-of-age that captures a universal sense of the strangeness of our bodies. It grips and entertains us while also challenging ideas about love, sexuality, gender, and identity.
Wonder Woman (2016-) #769
Author: Mariko Tamaki
Publisher: DC Comics
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The trail of Maxwell Lord’s would-be killer has brought Wonder Woman face to face with her newest, deadliest foe! Liar Liar is back and ready for round two against the woman she blames for her damaged relationship with her father. But Diana has learned a thing or two since their last encounter, and this time our hero is headed straight into the heart of Liar Liar’s sick delusions. It’s the final chapter of the “Saga of Lords,” and you won’t want to miss it!
Publisher: DC Comics
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The trail of Maxwell Lord’s would-be killer has brought Wonder Woman face to face with her newest, deadliest foe! Liar Liar is back and ready for round two against the woman she blames for her damaged relationship with her father. But Diana has learned a thing or two since their last encounter, and this time our hero is headed straight into the heart of Liar Liar’s sick delusions. It’s the final chapter of the “Saga of Lords,” and you won’t want to miss it!
The Secret History of Wonder Woman
Author: Jill Lepore
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0385354053
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Within the origin of one of the world’s most iconic superheroes hides a fascinating family story—and a crucial history of feminism in the twentieth-century. “Everything you might want in a page-turner…skeletons in the closet, a believe-it-or-not weirdness in its biographical details, and something else that secretly powers even the most “serious” feminist history—fun.” —Entertainment Weekly The Secret History of Wonder Woman is a tour de force of intellectual and cultural history. Wonder Woman, Jill Lepore argues, is the missing link in the history of the struggle for women’s rights—a chain of events that begins with the women’s suffrage campaigns of the early 1900s and ends with the troubled place of feminism a century later. Lepore, a Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer, has uncovered an astonishing trove of documents, including the never-before-seen private papers of Wonder Woman’s creator, William Moulton Marston. The Marston family story is a tale of drama, intrigue, and irony. In the 1920s, Marston and his wife brought into their home Olive Byrne, the niece of Margaret Sanger, one of the most influential feminists of the twentieth century. Even while celebrating conventional family life in a regular column that Marston and Byrne wrote for Family Circle, they themselves pursued lives of extraordinary nonconformity. Marston, internationally known as an expert on truth—he invented the lie detector test—lived a life of secrets, only to spill them on the pages of Wonder Woman. Includes a new afterword with fresh revelations based on never before seen letters and photographs from the Marston family’s papers, and 161 illustrations and 16 pages in full color.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0385354053
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Within the origin of one of the world’s most iconic superheroes hides a fascinating family story—and a crucial history of feminism in the twentieth-century. “Everything you might want in a page-turner…skeletons in the closet, a believe-it-or-not weirdness in its biographical details, and something else that secretly powers even the most “serious” feminist history—fun.” —Entertainment Weekly The Secret History of Wonder Woman is a tour de force of intellectual and cultural history. Wonder Woman, Jill Lepore argues, is the missing link in the history of the struggle for women’s rights—a chain of events that begins with the women’s suffrage campaigns of the early 1900s and ends with the troubled place of feminism a century later. Lepore, a Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer, has uncovered an astonishing trove of documents, including the never-before-seen private papers of Wonder Woman’s creator, William Moulton Marston. The Marston family story is a tale of drama, intrigue, and irony. In the 1920s, Marston and his wife brought into their home Olive Byrne, the niece of Margaret Sanger, one of the most influential feminists of the twentieth century. Even while celebrating conventional family life in a regular column that Marston and Byrne wrote for Family Circle, they themselves pursued lives of extraordinary nonconformity. Marston, internationally known as an expert on truth—he invented the lie detector test—lived a life of secrets, only to spill them on the pages of Wonder Woman. Includes a new afterword with fresh revelations based on never before seen letters and photographs from the Marston family’s papers, and 161 illustrations and 16 pages in full color.
Katniss the Cattail
Author: Valerie Estelle Frankel
Publisher: Henry Potty and the Pet Rock
ISBN: 146996824X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
"Bringing details from myths, herbal guides, military histories, and the classics, English professor and award-winning pop culture author Valerie Estelle Frankel sheds light on the deeper meanings behind Panem's heroes and villains in this hottest of YA trilogies."--Page 4 of cover.
Publisher: Henry Potty and the Pet Rock
ISBN: 146996824X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
"Bringing details from myths, herbal guides, military histories, and the classics, English professor and award-winning pop culture author Valerie Estelle Frankel sheds light on the deeper meanings behind Panem's heroes and villains in this hottest of YA trilogies."--Page 4 of cover.
Wonder Woman: War of the Gods
Author: George Perez
Publisher: DC Comics
ISBN: 1401267556
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Legendary comics author George Pérez’s epic Wonder Woman saga! On Wonder Woman’s island home of Themyscira, angry voices are rising. Following a massacre in man’s world, Queen Hippolyta is presumed dead, and the Amazons’ thirst for revenge is strong. But even as her people teeter on the brink of war, Princess Diana is forcibly summoned to Olympus, where Zeus and the Greek gods are being attacked by their Roman counterparts-in defiance of all heavenly order. The realms of the gods are being turned upside down and inside out, and if left unchecked the chaos will quickly engulf the earth.Beneath it all lies a tangled web of magic and deceit that ensnares everyone from Superman and Captain Marvel to Lobo and the Suicide Squad. But even as the world’s greatest heroes unite to stop the warring pantheons, mortals and immortals alike remain pawns in a single mastermind’s twisted game.The evil sorceress Circe will stop at nothing to have her revenge on Wonder Woman-even if it means destroying the universe itself! Collects WAR OF THE GODS #1-4, WONDER WOMAN #58-62 and WONDER WOMAN: WAR OF THE GODS.
Publisher: DC Comics
ISBN: 1401267556
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Legendary comics author George Pérez’s epic Wonder Woman saga! On Wonder Woman’s island home of Themyscira, angry voices are rising. Following a massacre in man’s world, Queen Hippolyta is presumed dead, and the Amazons’ thirst for revenge is strong. But even as her people teeter on the brink of war, Princess Diana is forcibly summoned to Olympus, where Zeus and the Greek gods are being attacked by their Roman counterparts-in defiance of all heavenly order. The realms of the gods are being turned upside down and inside out, and if left unchecked the chaos will quickly engulf the earth.Beneath it all lies a tangled web of magic and deceit that ensnares everyone from Superman and Captain Marvel to Lobo and the Suicide Squad. But even as the world’s greatest heroes unite to stop the warring pantheons, mortals and immortals alike remain pawns in a single mastermind’s twisted game.The evil sorceress Circe will stop at nothing to have her revenge on Wonder Woman-even if it means destroying the universe itself! Collects WAR OF THE GODS #1-4, WONDER WOMAN #58-62 and WONDER WOMAN: WAR OF THE GODS.