Wonder Woman: the subversion of the female in the comics of the 1940-1950 decades

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Published: Dec 31, 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.46866/josshe.2020.v3.n2.93
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Mulher-Maravilha, Movimento Feminista, Sociedade nos anos 1950 Wonder Woman, Feminist Movement, Society in the 1950s Wonder Woman, Movimiento Feminista , Sociedad en la década de 1950

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Ana Kelma Cunha Gallas
Centro Universitário Santo Agostinho - UNIFSA
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5948-1505

Abstract

This article is a theoretical study carried out through the literature review methodology, with the aim of analyzing the impact of the character “Wonder Woman”, created in 1941 by the American psychologist William Moulton Marston, in the conservative American society of his time. The objective of this article is to discuss theoretically about the contributions that this character brought to the feminist movement at the end of the first wave, as well as to discuss the opinions formulated about the character, taking into account the ideation about women, in the patriarchal perspective. To discuss this character, who secured a place for women in the pantheon of the main heroes of the publisher DC Comics, we take into account a theoretical reflection on the sexual roles prevalent in the 1940s and 1950s in the United States. From feminist authors such as Simone de Beauvoir ([1949], 1970) and Catharine A. MacKinnon (1983), the objectification of the female body and female emancipation in the conception of the character Wonder Woman is discussed.


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GALLAS, A. K. C. Wonder Woman: the subversion of the female in the comics of the 1940-1950 decades. Journal of Social Sciences, Humanities and Research in Education, v. 3, n. 2, p. 21-29, 31 Dec. 2020.
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Author Biography

Ana Kelma Cunha Gallas, Centro Universitário Santo Agostinho - UNIFSA

PhD student in Public Policy at the Federal University of Piauí (UFPI). Master in Anthropology and Archaeology, Federal University of Piauí (2011-2013). Bachelor of Social Communication - Journalism from the Federal University of Piauí (1993). She holds a postgraduate degree in Image and Advertising (UFPI, 2002); in Higher Education Teaching (UNIFSA, 2007) and in Corporate Communication Management (UFPI, 2008). She is currently professor of Anthropology at the Centro Universitário Santo Agostinho (UNIFSA), where she participates, as a guide, in research projects PIBIC-PIVIC (UNIFSA). Executive organizer of UNIFSA Scientific Week, since 2003. He has been a member of the Editorial Coordination of FSA Magazine since 2003. Coordinator of the Extension Project "A Look at Diversity: discussing body, sex and gender in the university space" (since 2015). Since 2011, he has been part of the CNPq Research Group, Sexualities, Body and Gender - SEXGEN (Federal University of Pará - UFPA), and COMGENERO (State University of Piauí), which develops studies on the themes of sexual cultures, homosexual identities, the social construction of gender, sexual diversity, among others. Screenwriter of the film "Flor de Abril" (2011) and Script Supervision of the short film "Where the seahorses live" (2017). Author of the novel "Espelhos e Miragens" (Ed.Viraletra), awarded in the literature category of the 18th Citizenship Award in respect of diversity, from the Association of LGBT Pride Parade of São Paulo. He participated in the compilation albums "Elas Contam" (2006), by Ed. Corações e Mentes (SP), and [in]contadas, by Ed. Vira Letra (SP).

 

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