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Wonder Woman Unbound: The Curious History Of The World's Most Famous Heroine (2014)

by Tim Hanley(Favorite Author)

3.78 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1613749090 (ISBN13: 9781613749098)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Chicago Review Press

review 1: This book offers, perhaps, the most comprehensive research on Wonder Woman (in comics) than any other book out there. However, Tim Hanley lacks the vocabulary to thoroughly engage with Wonder Woman on a critical level. This is most evident when Hanley tries to engage feminist theory and or feminist historiography with Wonder Woman; Hanley ends up failing on multiple levels. This book would work best as an extended blog article on bondage fetishism and Wonder Woman, as this is the one area of the book that not only succeeds but offers a new perspective/information on Wonder Woman's bondage heritage.
review 2: Another 3.5 star read.I have hazy recollections of reading Wonder Woman comics as a kid. I'm now wishing that I had hung on to them! I'm curious as to wh... moreich of three waves of stories I was mostly reading.The original author, William Marston, was a very intriguing individual and I would be interested in reading more about him if I can track anything down. He was of the firm opinion that women were the superior gender and that women would soon be running the world. He wrote the Wonder Woman comics to prepare young men to welcome their female overlords submissively when that time arrived. He also lived in a polyamorous household (one legal wife and one common law wife and several children, all in one home) and appears to have a bit of a thing for bondage. Hence Wonder Woman and her lasso, which she seemed to end up tied up with almost as often as she bound bad guys with it.There seem to have been a lot of forgettable comics starring Wonder Woman. There was a brief revival when she was championed by Ms. Magazine and Gloria Steinem, which was quickly over and the Amazonian heroine returned to obscurity. The TV series, which I remember somewhat better than the comics, also lifted her profile briefly.But as the author points out, better obscurity than being treated poorly by comic writers who don't know what to do with Wonder Woman. Perhaps there will be a female writer who will take up the cause one day and write an adventure worthy of our Amazon Warrior Princess--plots that don't reduce her to Superman's love interest or portray her as desperate to marry Steve Whats-his-name.This book is a revised thesis, and although it is very readable for a thesis, you can still see its bone structure peeking through. less

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