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Sunday documentary film: Kapow! Wonder Women!

Sunday, September 9, 2018 14:30to17:00
Redpath Museum l'amphitheatre, 859 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 0C4, CA

The Untold Story of American Superheroines听offers a nuanced critique of gender and heroism in popular culture as well as a powerful dose of Vitamin F(eminism) for the undernourished. 听From the birth of the 1940s comic book heroine, Wonder Woman, to the blockbusters of today,听Wonder Women!听looks at how popular representations of powerful women often reflect society鈥檚 anxieties about strong and healthy women.听Wonder Women!听reveals the complicated negotiations girls and women face as they attempt to achieve confidence, strength, and agency in a society often at odds with those goals. Yet it also inspires through its evocative images, upbeat soundtrack, and richly contextualized history of American superheroines鈥攊ncluding the everyday wonder women and action girls in our midst.

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