The Artist in American History

The Artist in American History


006 - Comic Books Studies: Wonder Woman, Feminist Icon - A Brief History of Her Gendered Creation

May 27, 2014

The sixth episode in the Comic Books Studies series examines the ways in which Wonder Woman creator William Moulton Marston tried to distill his complicated ideas about gender and female superiority into a single character.  Wonder Woman, who will make her big screen debut in 2016's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, was the face of Marston's vision of the future.