Manga: Superheroes and super-villains
Stone Arch Books The Terrible Trio You Choose Stories Batman
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£24.49
Capstone Press SuperVillain Smackdown
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£6.60
Stone Arch Books Batman Tangles with Terror DC Super Hero Stories
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£19.49
Stone Arch Books Superman Battles the Billionaire Bully DC Super
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£19.49
Capstone Press Wonder Woman Wrestles Circes Sorcery DC Super
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£5.78
Capstone Press Superman Battles the Billionaire Bully DC Super
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£4.95
Stone Arch Books Catwomans Halloween Heist Batman
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£20.49
Stone Arch Books Five Riddles for Robin Batman
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£20.49
Stone Arch Books Fun House of Evil
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£20.49
Capstone Press The Man Behind the Mask Batman
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£6.60
Capstone Press Fun House of Evil
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£6.60
Capstone Press Five Riddles for Robin Batman
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£6.60
Stone Arch Books Batman and the Ultimate Riddle
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£20.49
Stone Arch Books Justice League and the False Destiny
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£20.49
Stone Arch Books Superman and the Apokolips Attack
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£24.59
Stone Arch Books Wonder Woman and the Pandora Plot
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£20.49
Capstone Press Batman and the Ultimate Riddle DC Super Hero
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£6.60
Capstone Press Justice League and the False Destiny DC Super
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£6.60
Capstone Press Superman and the Apokolips Attack
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£6.60
Capstone Press Wonder Woman and the Pandora Plot
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£6.60
Lexington Books Education and the Female Superhero
Book SynopsisConsidering a variety of female superhero narratives, including World War II-era Wonder Woman comics, the 1970s television programs The Secrets of Isis and The Bionic Woman, and the more recent Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Education and the Female Superhero: Slayers, Cyborgs, Sorority Sisters, and Schoolteachers argues that they share a vision of education as the path to female empowerment. In his analysis, Andrew L. Grunzke examines female superheroes who are literally teachers or students, exploring examples of female superheroes whose alter egos work as schoolteachers or attend school during the workday and fight evildoers when they are outside the classroom. Taking a broader view of education, Grunzke argues that the superheroine in popular media often sees and articulates her own role as being an educator. In these narratives, female superheroes often take it upon themselves to teach self-defense tactics, prevent victimization, and encourage people (especially female victims) to pursTable of ContentsChapter One: Redemption, Collaboration, and Compassion: Education and the Construction of the Female Superhero Identity Chapter Two: How Sorority Girls Became Wonder Women: Higher Education, Comic Books, and Female Empowerment during the Second World War Chapter Three: from Holliday Girls to Angels: Second Wave Feminism Meets Prime Time Television Chapter Four: 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 Chapter Five: The Cyborg and the Post-Human Schoolteacher: The Bionic Woman and 1970’s Prime Time Feminism Chapter Six: High School Is Hell: Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Feminist Education at the Turn of the Millennium
£76.50
Lexington Books Education and the Female Superhero
Book SynopsisConsidering a variety of female superhero narratives, including World War II-era Wonder Woman comics, the 1970s television programs The Secrets of Isis and The Bionic Woman, and the more recent Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Education and the Female Superhero: Slayers, Cyborgs, Sorority Sisters, and Schoolteachers argues that they share a vision of education as the path to female empowerment. In his analysis, Andrew L. Grunzke examines female superheroes who are literally teachers or students, exploring examples of female superheroes whose alter egos work as schoolteachers or attend school during the workday and fight evildoers when they are outside the classroom. Taking a broader view of education, Grunzke argues that the superheroine in popular media often sees and articulates her own role as being an educator. In these narratives, female superheroes often take it upon themselves to teach self-defense tactics, prevent victimization, and encourage people (especially female victims) to pursTrade ReviewAndrew Grunzke does a deep dive into the decades-long history of the female superhero within the historical context of gender attitudes. He reveals how media representations educated audiences in multiple ways—conforming to, responding to, and at times challenging both cultural expectations and societal changes. This is truly a thought-provoking and deftly-analyzed work! -- Eileen H. Tamura, Co-editor, The Oxford Handbook of the History of EducationIn this wonderfully creative book, Andrew Grunzke explores the impact of gender on the development of female superheroes, with thoughtful speculation on why so many are educators. Some of their alter-egos are actual teachers, while all of these superheroes approach crime-fighting as educators, teaching their enemies and trying to change their behavior. What does it say about our views of female empowerment, Grunzke asks, that these powerful heroes are connected to a field socially constructed as both feminine and sometimes lacking in power? With a keen historian’s eye focused imaginatively on comics and television, he explores how cultural attitudes about gender have intersected around schooling and the growth of popular culture. -- Linda Eisenmann, Wheaton CollegeSituating his argument historically and sociologically, Grunzke analyzes the identities and stories of Wonder Woman, Isis, The Bionic Woman, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer to illustrate how female superheroes have been used as a vehicle for both forwarding and constraining feminist messages. Grunzke analyzes the characteristics and dispositions of female superheroes and how these simultaneously empower and disempower them; female superheroes both supersede and remain anchored in the patriarchy. The educator role of female superheroes makes them complex, collaborative, and empathetic but also positions them as less independent and less decisive than male superheroes. Readers discover how our country’s tumultuous, complex negotiation of gender roles, sexual objectification, and feminist movements and backlash can be examined through the female superhero. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in female superheroes and who is interested in how pop culture educates us about feminism, gender roles, and power. -- Autumn Dodge, University of LynchburgTable of ContentsChapter One: Redemption, Collaboration, and Compassion: Education and the Construction of the Female Superhero IdentityChapter Two: How Sorority Girls Became Wonder Women: Higher Education, Comic Books, and Female Empowerment during the Second World WarChapter Three: from Holliday Girls to Angels: Second Wave Feminism Meets Prime Time TelevisionChapter Four: 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 1970sChapter Five: The Cyborg and the Post-Human Schoolteacher: The Bionic Woman and 1970’s Prime Time FeminismChapter Six: High School Is Hell: Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Feminist Education at the Turn of the Millennium
£27.00
Phoenix International Publications, Incorporated Marvel: Talking Quiz Sound Book
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£13.49
Dark Horse Comics,U.S. Black Hammer Volume 6: Reborn Part Two
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£17.09
Dark Horse Comics,U.S. The Umbrella Academy Volume 1: Apocalypse Suite
Book SynopsisThe ultimate deluxe hardcover edition of the Eisner-award winning graphic novel, now a hit Netflix show!
£56.99
Dark Horse Comics,U.S. The Umbrella Academy Volume 2: Dallas (deluxe
Book SynopsisThe ultimate deluxe hardcover edition of the Eisner-award winning graphic novel, now a hit Netflix show!
£56.99
Dark Horse Comics,U.S. The All-nighter
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£16.14
Dark Horse Comics,U.S. Powers Volume 2
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£23.19
Dark Horse Comics,U.S. Big Guy And Rusty The Boy Robot (second Edition)
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£17.09
Lerner Publishing Group Super Potato's Galactic Breakout
£25.19
West Margin Press The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life
Book SynopsisMirroring Nella Larsen's Passing, The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life is the fantastic debut of Wallace Thurman.A Black boy could get along but a Black girl would never know anything but sorrow and disappointment.Emma Lou was born black. Abandoned by her father at birth, she is subjected to skin bleaching by her mother, hoping to make her child more desirable. Learning that she is unwanted in white society but also ostracized within her own, Emma Lou navigates a harsh and unrelenting world as she tries to come to terms with her life and love herself in the skin she's in.Professionally typeset with a beautifully designed cover, this edition of The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life is a reimagining of a Harlem Renaissance staple for the modern reader.
£8.21
Picture Window Books Aquaman Is Fair
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£23.46
Stone Arch Books The Legendary Lasso
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£18.99
Stone Arch Books The Tiara and the Titan
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£18.99
Stone Arch Books The Unbreakable Bracelets
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£18.99
Stone Arch Books Jet-Powered Justice
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£18.99
Capstone Press Legendary Lasso (Wonder Woman Tales of Paradise
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£5.78
Capstone Press Tiara and the Titan (Wonder Woman Tales of
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£5.96
Capstone Press Unbreakable Bracelets (Wonder Woman Tales of
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£6.16
Capstone Press Jet-Powered Justice (Wonder Woman Tales of
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£6.16
Capstone Press Blossom Battle!
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£20.26
Capstone Press Rain of Fear!
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£18.99
Stone Arch Books Batgirl: An Origin Story
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£20.26
Stone Arch Books Robin: An Origin Story
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£20.26
Capstone Press Batgirl An Origin Story
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£8.99
Capstone Press Robin An Origin Story
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£8.99
Dynamite Entertainment KISS: The Elder Vol. 2:: Odyssey
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£16.19
Dynamite Entertainment Kiss/Army of Darkness TP
Book SynopsisKISS is on top of the world and rocking faces until the night disciples of The Destroyer show up and the band disappears. Now, with the KISS tour canceled, a young Ash misses one of the most important events of his life that will change his destiny. Now the Chosen One has to get back on the right path and join the KISS ARMY OF DARKNESS!
£16.19
