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2015 Amelia Bloomer Project List

This close look at Wonder Woman's history portrays a complicated heroine who is more than just a female Superman with a golden lasso and bullet-deflecting bracelets. The original Wonder Woman was ahead of her time, advocating female superiority and the benefits of matriarchy in the 1940s. At the same time, her creator filled the comics with titillating bondage imagery, and Wonder Woman was tied up as often as she saved the world. In the 1950s, Wonder Woman begrudgingly continued her superheroic mission, wishing she could settle down with her boyfriend instead, all while continually hinting at hidden lesbian leanings. While other female characters stepped forward as women's lib took off in the late 1960s, Wonder Woman fell backwards, losing her superpowers and flitting from man to man. Ms. magazine and Lynda Carter restored Wonder Woman's feminist strength in the 1970s, turning her into a powerful symbol as her checkered past was quickly forgotten. Exploring this lost history adds new dimensions to the world's most beloved female character, and Wonder Woman Unbound delves into her comic book and its spin-offs as well as the myriad motivations of her creators to showcase the peculiar journey that led to Wonder Woman's iconic status.


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  • Title Wonder Woman Unbound: The Curious History of the World's Most Famous Heroine
  • Author Tim Hanley
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Chicago Review Press, Chicago
  • Publication date 2014-04
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781613749098 / 1613749090
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.8 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 2.03 cm)
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects Gender identity in literature, Women in literature
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2013045111
  • Dewey Decimal Code 741.597

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Citations

  • Booklist, 04/15/2014, Page 10
  • Kirkus Reviews, 07/01/2014, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 05/15/2014, Page 98
  • New York Review of Books, 11/20/2014, Page 10

About the author

Tim Hanley is a comic book historian. He writes a blog, Straitened Circumstances, that discusses Wonder Woman and women in comics, and his monthly column, "Gendercrunching," runs on www.bleedingcool.com. He has also written several articles for the Tumblr magazine DC Women Kicking Ass.
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