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[email protected]. A Different Definition of “Boob-Tube”: What Dr. Catherine Gale, of The Avengers, Taught Women Robin Redmon Wright Texas A&M University, USA Keywords: Feminist, television, Avengers, adult learning, transformational Abstract: This paper summarizes a qualitative research project exploring the impact of the first feminist television character, Cathy Gale, of the 1962-64 British television program, The Avengers. Contemporaneous British women viewers reveal how Gale’s character helped them reject traditional roles, incorporate the character’s strengths,