![]() That's pretty much in line with what Wonder Woman's creator William Moulton Marston intended.Ī psychologist with connections to Margaret Sanger's birth control movement and a strong interest in feminism, Marston invented Wonder Woman as an antidote to what he called the "blood-curdling masculinity" of the comics.Īrriving on comics pages just as the horrors of World War II were descending, Wonder Woman would rise above male aggression - she almost never kills - and she would leave her home on Paradise Island to fight for America, described in her comics as "the last citadel of democracy and of equal rights for women!" "She represents a strong woman, and I hope that I can be like her," she says. "I could probably stop a bullet." For Izola, Wonder Woman is an empowering figure. "Breastplate's hard as a rock," she jokes, knocking on the armor. In this photo from 1977, Lynda Carter gets it done as one of many Wonder Woman.
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