Wonder Woman: The Female Body and Popular Culture

by Joan Ormrod

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350191647
• ISBN13: 9781350191648
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"