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Ormrod, Joan. Wonder Woman: The Female Body and Popular Culture. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Added by: joachim (1/5/21, 1:15 AM) Last edited by: joachim (1/5/21, 1:42 AM) |
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| Resource type: Book Language: en: English ID no. (ISBN etc.): 9781788314114 BibTeX citation key: Ormrod2020 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "Wonder Woman", Body, Gender, Superhero, USA Creators: Ormrod Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic (New York) |
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Wonder Woman 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 this book, Joan Ormrod analyses key moments in the superheroine's career and views them through the prism of the female body. This book explores how Wonder Woman's body has changed over the years as her mission has shifted from being an ambassador for peace and love to the greatest warrior in the DC transmedia universe, as she's reflected increasing technological sophistication, globalisation and women's changing roles and ambitions. Wonder Woman's physical form, Ormrod argues, is both an articulation of female potential and attempts to constrain it. Her body 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. Table of Contents Series Editors’ Foreword (x) Introduction: Wonder Woman and the Body in Popular Culture (1) 1. Beautiful White Bodies: Gender, Ethnicity and the Showgirl Body in the Second World War (31) Appendix: Main Story Arcs and Body Themes in Comics (217) |