Wonder Woman: Feminism, Culture and the Body: The Female Body and Popular Culture (Library of Gender and Popular Culture)

by OrmrodJoan (Author), Joan Ormrod (Author), Ormrod Joan (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2019

  $120.45

  She was created in the early 1940s as a paragon of female empowerment and beauty and her near eighty-year history has included seismic socio-cultural changes. In Wonder Woman: Feminism, Culture and the Body, Joan Ormrod analyses key moments in the superheroine's career and views them through the prism of the female body. Wonder Woman's physical form, Ormrod argues, has always been an amalgamation of the feminine ideal in popular culture and wider socio-cultural debate, from Betty Grable to the 1960s `mod' girl, to the Iron Maiden of the 1980s. This book explores how Wonder Woman's body has undergone a trajectory heavily influenced by increasing technological sophistication, globalisation and women's changing roles and ambitions. For Ormrod then, Wonder Woman's body is an articulation of female potential and cultural strategies to constrain her power, whilst it also reflects the changing nature of her mission from an ambassador for peace and love, to the greatest warrior in the DC transmedia universe.