Wonder Woman (1941-1948)

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🗓️ 15 June 2020

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the first Queer as Fiction episode for Season 5! Today we'll be talking about the DC comics superhero, Wonder Woman. Join us for a wide-ranging discussion covering everything from the suffragist movement to kinky sorority party rituals and find out exactly how a disgraced Harvard professor came to be writing a comic book that he described as "psychological propaganda for the new type of woman who, I believe, should rule the world.” This episode includes references to a series of images from the Wonder Woman comics. You can find the source post for this episode, which contains these images, on our new website. Please note there are a couple of content warnings we failed to include in our recording: This episode includes period-typical misogyny and descriptions of a hunger strike. If you enjoy this episode, consider supporting us on Patreon, checking out our merch, and following us on Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook. Image Source: Ms. Magazine, 1972.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Queer as Fiction, where we talk about queer historical media.
0:04.3	My name is Jason.
0:05.2	I'm Alice.
0:05.9	And I'm Eli.
0:06.9	And today we're talking about the origins of William Malton Marston's DC comic superhero Wonder Woman.
0:23.8	Before we get into this episode, we have a couple of announcements.
0:26.6	Firstly, as you might have seen, we have a new website.
0:31.5	So if you would like to check out sources for our episodes and find out more about us,
0:35.9	then head to Queer's Fact.com, where you can find links to all our social media and the aforementioned content.
0:37.1	Also, you may have noticed that this episode topic is neither Frida Carlo nor Achilles and Patriclus.
0:42.7	We decided that the Achilles and Patricleseus episode was a little grim, both for you and for us right now.
0:48.5	So instead, we're going to talk about Wonder Woman.
0:50.3	We do have some content warnings for this episode.
0:52.6	There will be extensive references to BDSM
0:55.1	throughout the episode. There will also be some brief discussion of sexual assault, childhood,
1:00.2	sexual abuse and trauma. As far as I can tell, that's it. And now, on with the episode. Aside from a
1:05.4	brief hiatus in 1986, Wonder Woman Comics have been published continuously since she first appeared in
1:10.5	All-Star Comics
1:11.2	No. 8 in October of 1941. She's been the subject of her own television show in the 1970s,
1:16.4	appeared in dozens of superhero shows, both animated and live-action, and now has her own
1:20.5	live-action film franchise directed by Patty Jenkins. In celebration of the release of Wonder Woman
1:25.0	1984, in the year 2020, we are pretty much exclusively going to talk about the initial 1940s run of Wonder Woman Comics.
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