The original Wonder Woman was a circular story of re-education, whirling through lessons on gender and power dynamics. One recurrent teaching was ...
Centuries after the Amazons landed on Paradise Island, Diana was born. On her fifteenth birthday, she pledged herself to Aphrodite’s ...
Fun Fact: The Magic Lasso was not part of Wonder Woman’s original design. Marston added it as a story element ...
“What’s this?” I asked my mom, my eyes riveted to the TV screen. A beauty queen wrapped in an American ...
I once read that Marston wrote every single Wonder Woman story during his lifetime, including four stories in each issue of Wonder Woman, ...
In Wonder Woman #1, Marston compared Diana’s birth to the myth, “Pygmalion and Galatea,” in which a sculptor became so enamored of ...
In Wonder Woman #1, a panel showing an Amazon woman beating back her abusers with broken chains to reclaim her personhood was ...
Like all the Amazons, Queen Hippolyte enjoyed a bountiful life brimming with every happiness—save one. After centuries of personal development ...
My Magic Bracelets Both of my grandmothers were delightfully indulgent of my Wonder Woman love, helping me construct costumes from ...
Paradise Island The battle with the Hercules and the Greeks marked the end of Amazons’ participation in men’s affairs, but ...
Note: This post builds on The History of Hercules and Herstory of Hippolyte. The legend of the Amazons unfolds on ...
A Tale of Two Olives When I began researching William Moulton Marston in the early 1990s, it struck me as ...
As an immortal embodiment of the indomitable feminine spirit, Wonder Woman’s character lends herself to the exploration of big ideas. ...
In 2016, the year leading up to the release of her eponymous movie, Wonder Woman was named the United Nations’ ...
The controversy surrounding Wonder Woman’s appearance goes all the way back to the beginning. The character’s visual design was a ...
Sadie Elizabeth Holloway was a wonder among women. Born in 1893, she emigrated with her parents from the Isle of ...
One Comic Book Writer’s Extraordinary ResuméWonder Woman’s creator, Professor William Moulton Marston, was a peculiar figure in the comic book ...