What is it about?
This article analyses the work of George Perez who wrote and drew Wonder Woman from 1987. Perez showed how consumerism could taint the heroine's innocence by making her a goddess and an ideal that ordinary women could not hope to copy. This put her mission to empower women in man's world at risk.
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Why is it important?
The article shows how consumerism and patriarchy jeopardized the empowerment of women in the 1980s.
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I always admired the work of George Perez and this article enabled me to identify why I enjoyed his art and writing. He understood Wonder Woman as an innocent abroad and her mission to save humanity from its own destructive qualities. His work also showed how different she was to other characters who relied more on brawn and violence than love and redemption.
Dr Joan M Ormrod
Manchester Metropolitan University
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This page is a summary of: Wonder Woman 1987–1990: the Goddess, the Iron Maiden and the sacralisation of consumerism, Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics, November 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2018.1540135.
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