Wonder Woman and Philosophy.

Wonder Woman and Philosophy.

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Main Author: Irwin, William
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2017.
Series:Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Ser.
Subjects:
Wonder Woman > (Fictitious character)
Comic books, strips, etc. > Moral and ethical aspects.
Comic books, strips, etc. > Moral and ethical aspects
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Table of Contents:
  • Series; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contributors: The Myndi Mayer Foundation; Acknowledgments; Editor's Note; Introduction: In and For a World of Ordinary Mortals; Note; Part I: You are a Wonder Woman; 1: Becoming a (Wonder) Woman: Feminism, Nationalism, and the Ambiguity of Female Identity; What is a Woman?; The Ambiguously Feminist Superhero; To Become a (Wonder) Woman; Notes; 2: The God of War is Wearing What?: Gender in the New 52; Hell Hath No Fury; Who Are You Calling Second?; Aggressive Men and the Women Who Nurture Them; Everyone (and No One) is Watching You!
  • The God of War is Wearing What?One Big Happy Family; Notes; 3: Wonder Woman vs. Harley Quinn: The Paradox of the Moral Hero; Merciful Minerva! Look at That (Costume)!; Call Me Harley! Everyone Does!; Athena's Shield! No Nada Zero Zip Zilch Nothin' (to Know)!; My Boss Likes Me to Wear (Just) a Smile to Work!; Great Hera! Wonder Wowsa!; Notes; 4: Great Hera!: Considering Wonder Woman's Super Heroism; (Super)Heroes as (Super)Samaritans; Making Heroes; Making and Remaking Wonder Woman; Superheroes and Super Heroes; Notes; Part II: Dispatches from Man's World; 5: Wonder Woman: Feminist Faux Pas?
  • Who Can Match Up?Brawn and Bondage; Damn You Hitler!; The Amazons Wept; A Freakin' Fashion Boutique?; Modern Mediocrity?; Why So Serious?; Notes; 6: Feminist Symbol or Fetish?: Žižek, Wonder Woman, and Final Crisis; The Legacy of William Moulton Marston; On Symptoms ... ; ... and Fetishes; Wonder Woman as the Comic Industry's Fetish; Morrison and Wonder Woman: Earth One; Notes; 7: When Clark Met Diana: Friendship and Romance in Comics; Friendship in Philosophy; Friendship in Popular Fiction; Popular Fiction as Action Guiding; Friendship across the Kinsey Scale; Friendship and Amatonormativity.
  • Freeing FriendshipNotes; 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; The Magic Lasso vs. the Lasso of Truth; Four Ethical Touchstones; "The Truth is My Weapon"; "This is my soul. Please tread carefully."; Truth-Force; "When we don't want it, the truth burns."; Notes; 9: "What I Had to Do": The Ethics of Wonder Woman's Execution of Maxwell Lord; Maxwell Lord, Check and Mate; Killing Now to Prevent Killing Later; Would a Moral Philosopher Have Saved Max Lord?; No Regret, No Remorse; Avoiding the Tragic Dilemma.
  • Would She-Should She-Do It Again?Notes; 10: Can a Warrior Care?: Wonder Woman and the Improbable Intersection of Care Ethics and Bushido; Bushido and Care; Wonder Woman and the Way of the Warrior; Wonder Woman: Samurai Feminist?; The Caring Warrior; Notes; 11: Wonder Woman: Saving Lives through Just Torture?; Torture and the Ticking Bomb; Torture and the Golden Lasso; The Right Thing is Not the Ideal Thing; Notes; 12: Wonder Woman Winning with Words: A Paragon of Wisdom, Disarming Threats One at a Time ... ; In a World of Superheroes, She is Still a Wonder Woman; Lassos, Truth, and Wisdom.

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