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Wonder Woman Against the Nazis! Gendering Comic Book Villainy in DC Comics,: Representations of Nazism in Postwar Popular Culture

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  • SDG 5 - Gender Equality
    SDG 5 Gender Equality

Abstract

Several DC Comics featured Nazis as villains in the 1960s and 1970s. In this period, the authors explained to a new generation of readers of why Nazism was villainous. Comics with largely male protagonists (Sergeant Rock, Unknown Solider, Haunted Tank, and Justice League) and tend to emphasize racism, the Holocaust, and brutality. By contrast, Wonder Woman comics add another element in addition to those previously listed: misogyny. Wonder Woman's authors used information and ideas from the original 1940s comics to inform their work, preserving a pop culture history of Nazi misogyny at a time when academic history had not explored this theme.

Publication Information

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Scholary Output:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
Chapter

Host publication Subtitle

Representations of Nazism in Postwar Popular Culture

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 131-154

Publication milestones

  • Published - 08/31/2010

Publication status

Published - 08/31/2010

Publisher

Praeger

ISBN (Print)

0313382166

Host publication title

Monsters in the Mirror

Host publication editors

  • Abbenhuis Maartje
  • Buttsworth Sara

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