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Wonder Women And Her Disciplinary Powers Analysis

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The text “Wonder Women and Her Disciplinary Powers” by Molly Rhodes talks about how women are depicted in the world of comic books. Historians like Elaine Tyler May and Susan Faludi used the idea of Wonder Woman’s amazon power as part of the “Rosie the Riveter" phenomenon in the U.S. The “Rosie the Riveter” term was commonly used during World War II, and was used as a symbol of feminism and women's economic power. As Rhodes discussed in the text, this kind of cultural power, embodied by Wonder Woman, was not femininity created only for World War II, but was also propelled by powerful discourses of science, reform, and sexuality. Dr. William Moulton Marston, the official creator of Wonder Woman, represented these ideas of science, reform,

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