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Event

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聽offers a nuanced critique of gender and heroism in popular culture as well as a powerful dose of Vitamin F(eminism) for the undernourished. 聽From the birth of the 1940s comic book heroine, Wonder Woman, to the blockbusters of today,聽Wonder Women!聽looks at how popular representations of powerful women often reflect society鈥檚 anxieties about strong and healthy women.聽Wonder Women!聽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.

Land Acknowledgement

捆绑SM社区 is on land which has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst Indigenous peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg nations. We acknowledge and thank the diverse Indigenous peoples whose presence marks this territory on which peoples of the world now gather.

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