The article I chose focused on the topic of Mythologies of Gender and Nation : Reading Wonder Woman’s Body by Mitra C. Emad. I chose the article because it described the positive influence of women’s comic books on American culture. This influence the book says, “dates as far back as the second World War”. The article focuses on how books can promote the status of women in today’s society as they continue to struggle for equality both in the workplace and at home. The moral of the story is that women can empower themselves, changing from weak girls to economically and sexually independent women. To support this notion (Emad, 2006) states, “In developing a Barthesian approach to this comic book character, I argue that Wonder Woman’s body as a cultural artifact represents specific gendered nationalisms with meanings that delineate an uneasy, often oppositional, blending of the separate spheres of femininity and nation. In each historical instance, however, Wonder Woman’s body is both an icon of the traditionally masculine, public Reading Wonder Woman’s Body 955 realm of nationhood as well as the traditionally feminine, private realm of female sexuality. As such, her body serves as a site for constantly oppositional encounters between gender and nation, private and public, and bondage and power”. The article also compares the way comic books depicted the role of women in America in the period during second World War and the year 2001.
References
Emad M. (2006) The Journal of Popular Culture, Reading Wonder Woman’s Body: Mythologies of Gender and Nation, Vol. 39, No. 6
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