This satirical cartoon about Wonder Woman, found here, might be an interesting conversation-starter about power and sexuality, and how we’re always expressing our own sexuality within a set of social assumptions about gender, power, and so on.
Thanks, Krystal-Lynn M.!
NEW! Here is a Wonder Woman comic (found here) that depicts her using her sexuality as a weapon. Thanks to Potts for sending this one along!
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Brady — April 25, 2008
Well, Wonder Woman's creator was in a polyamorous marriage and was, it seems, pretty into bondage. (His wiki page is an interesting read, to say the least.)
I think some of the original covers have just as much, if not more, grist for the mill:
http://www.superdickery.com/bondage/1.html
Also, fun fact: Wonder Woman is taller than Superman.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go crawl back into my cave and make sure my old copies of "Web of Spiderman" are in the proper order.
Junior Sociologist — May 3, 2008
I'm working on a paper about gender and comic and, from my research, Morston's original Wonder Woman, during the Golden Age, usually was dominant. Morston believed in male submission, female superiority, and Wonder Woman's bracelets represented Amazonian struggle against and defeat of patriarchy. It was not until the 1970's that villains frequently bound Wonder Woman (before, she did the tying).
Andy — May 7, 2008
More on female domination please - lots of photos of that around if you search. I'd love to know what people think.
Sociological Images » WHAT WE’VE BEEN DOING BEHIND YOUR BACK (MAY 2008) — June 2, 2008
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