ISSN:
0022-3840
Language:
English
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of popular culture : JPC : the official publication of the Popular Culture Association, Popular Literature Section (Comparative Literature II) of the Modern Language Association of America and the Popular Section of the Midwest Modern Language Association
Publ. der Quelle:
Malden, Mass. [u.a.] : Blackwell Publ
Angaben zur Quelle:
Vol. 50, No. 5 (2017), p. 1003-1023
DDC:
390
Abstract:
Dorothy Gale of Kansas and "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," and "Wonder Woman," the "Amazing Amazon" of comic book fame, are two of the most beloved female characters of 20th-century American culture. The two have much in common; as the biographers of their creators have ably shown, L. Frank Baum, the creator of Oz, and William Moulton Marston, the creator of Wonder Woman, both identified as feminists, and each man was personally influenced by strong familial ties with women who rejected the traditional gender norms of their times. There is also an unacknowledged connection between these two sets of female-driven narratives: their theoretical foundations are identical, as both texts are based upon the same branch of American feminist theory known as matriarchalism.
Note:
Copyright: © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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URL:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpcu.12594/abstract
URL:
https://search.proquest.com/docview/1961395398
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