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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Held, Jacob M., editor.

Series:

Blackwell philosophy and popculture series.

The Blackwell Philosophy and PopCulture Series.

THEi Wiley ebooks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comic books, strips, etc--Moral and ethical aspects.

Comic books, strips, etc.

Wonder Woman (Fictitious character).

Wonder Woman.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, England : Wiley Blackwell, 2017.

System Details:

Access using campus network via VPN at home (THEi Users Only).

Summary:

Wonder Woman and Philosophy: The Amazonian Mystique explores a wide range of philosophical questionssurrounding the most popular female superhero of all time, from her creation as feminist propaganda during World War II up to the first female lead in the blockbuster DC movie-franchise. * The first book dedicated to the philosophical questions raised by the complex and enduringly iconic super-heroine * Fighting fascism with feminism since 1941, considers the power of Wonder Woman as an exploration of gender identity and also that of the human condition - what limits us and what we can overcome * Confronts the ambiguities of Wonder Woman, from her roles as a feminist cause and fully empowered woman, to her objectification as sexual fantasy * Topics explored include origin stories and identity, propaganda and art, altruism and the ethics of care, Amazonians as transhumanists, eroticism and graphic novels, the crafting of a heroine, domination, relationships, the ethics of killing and torture, and many more.

Contents:

Intro

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

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!

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

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?

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

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 Friendship

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."

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?

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

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

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

Ambassador, Emissary, and Role Model

Part IV: God(s), Country, Sorority

13: Wonder Woman, Worship, and Gods Almighty: Purpose in Submission to Loving Authority

One God, Two Gods, Old Gods, New Gods

False Gods and the Cult of Wonder Woman

Whose God, Which Divinity?

Not as a Princess, But as a God

14: Merciful Minerva in a Modern Metropolis

"A woman with the eternal beauty of Aphrodite and the wisdom of Athena"

Hercules and the Barbarian World of Men

"Let us go back-back to that mysterious Amazon isle called Paradise Island!".

Freedom and Liberty for All

World War II and the Fight for the Classical Legacy

The German Psychologist Hugo Münsterberg as Dr. Psycho

15: Wonder Woman and Patriarchy: From Themyscira's Amazons to Wittig's Guérrillères

Diana against Man's World: A Feminist Epic Tale

The Guérrillères at War

Listen to Wonder Woman: Fight Patriarch's World

Part V: Tying Up Loose Ends

16: The Lasso of Truth?

The Lie Detector

A Magic Lie Detector?

The Stronger Sex

Inducement and Submission

Dominance and Compliance

Alluring and Submissive

Bracelets of Submission

The Magic Lasso of Aphrodite

Submission vs. Slavery

Deception and Domination

A Final Twist

17: Loving Lassos: Wonder Woman, Kink, and Care

Femdom Fantasies

Aphrodite's Law and the Ethics of Care

The Kinky Ties that Bind

Being a Good Mistress

Return to Paradise Island

18: Golden Lassos and Logical Paradoxes

The Two Rules of the Golden Lasso of Truth

Bizarra and Her Lasso

Revenge of the Magic Lassos

Other Topics in Lasso Logic

Solutions

Index

EULA.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 8, 2017).

ISBN:

9781119280743

1119280745

9781119280774

111928077X

9781119280804

111928080X

OCLC:

974584460