Wonder Woman: The Female Body and Popular Culture

Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
Contents
Series Editors’ Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction Wonder Woman and the Body in Popular Culture
	Beginnings
	William Moulton Marston, Harry G. Peter and the Comic Book Industry
	After Marston
	The Superhero Body and the Superheroine Narrative Trajectory
	Ethnicity and Queer Bodies: Amazons
	Career Woman/Trickster: Diana Prince
	Writing about Wonder Woman: The Marston Effect
	Somatic Theory
	Plan of the Book
1 Beautiful White Bodies Gender, Ethnicity and the Showgirl Body in the Second World War
	Gender and Ethnicity in Second World War Propaganda: Pure/Impure, Health/Disease
	Women and the War Effort
	Ethnicity, Beauty and the Showgirl Body
	Race, Gender and Pollution in Wonder Woman
	Love in Chains: Bondage, Discipline and Submission
	Loving Domination and Submission in Institutions
	Conclusions
2 ‘Here Be Monsters’ The Mutating, Splitting and Familial Body of the Cold War
	Culture, Comics and the Cold War
	The Impossible Family and the Menace of Multiple Man
	Monstrous Bodies
	Conclusions
3 The New Diana Prince! Makeovers, Movement and the Fab/ricated Body, 1968–72
	The Fashionable Body and the Superhero
	Counterculture, Fandom and the Comics Industry, 1968–74
	Modernizing Diana Prince
	Pop Aesthetics, Female Spies and Consumerism
	Feminism, Costume and the Active Female Body
	Makeovers, Space and Female Agency
	The Uncontrolled Body and Uncontrolled Mind of Doctor Cyber
	After Diana Prince: The Pre-Fab Feminist Body
4 The Goddess, the Iron Maiden and the Sacralization of Consumerism
	Capitalism, Feminism and the Politics of Health
	The Sacred, the Profane and the Mundane
	Marketing the Sacred: The Goddess and the Iron Maiden
	Consuming/Consumed by the Sacred
	Myndi Mayer and Lucy Spear
	Conclusions
5 Taming the Unruly Woman Surveillance, Truth and the Mass Media Post-9/11
	Post 9/11: Comics, Politics and American Culture
	The Fatale Gaze: The Banality of Images and Captivated Audiences
	Manipulation, New Ways of Looking and the Judgemental Gaze
6 Whose Story Is It Anyway? Revisiting the Family in the DC Extended Universe
	The DCEU
	The New 52 Wonder Woman : Dysfunctional Families, Absent Fathers and Negligent Mothers
	The Dying/Reviving God and the Messiah in The New 52 and Rebirth
7 The Once and Future Princess Nostalgia, Diversity and the Intersectional Heroine
	Nostalgia as a Promotional Tool in the DCEU
	The Future Princess
	Ethnic, Racial and Gender Issues in Early Twenty-First Century America
	Race and Ethnicity
	Gender
Appendix: Main Story Arcs and Body Themes in Comics
Notes
Bibliography
Index