Women Can Do Wonders
Christie Smith
Professor Roberts
English 1301
16 October, 2014
Women Can Do Wonders
Christmas of 1977 there was only one thing I wanted. It was the same thing every girl in my kindergarten class wanted, Wonder Woman Underroos. Wonder Woman was the reason we raced to the playground every day and twirled around in circles. The boys could choose between Superman, Batman, and Spiderman, but for the girls, there was only one clear choice, Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman stood for much more than just fighting bad guys and crime, she had an allegiance to democracy, believed in truth and justice, lived by a code to do no harm, and knew that women were the wave of the future.
In the late ...
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a draft of his first script, explaining the "under-meaning" of Wonder Woman's Amazonian origins in ancient Greece, where men had kept women in chains, until they broke free and escaped. "The NEW WOMEN thus freed and strengthened by supporting themselves (on Paradise Island) developed enormous physical and mental power." His comic, he said, was meant to chronicle "a great movement now under way -- the growth in the power of women." She would leave Paradise to fight fascism with feminism, in "America, the last citadel of democracy, and of equal rights for women!"(qtd in Lepor).
In 1975, the television hit series Wonder Woman, aired its first episode. ABC casted former 1971 Miss USA, Lynda Carter, for the role of Wonder Woman. She was tall, dark hair, blue eyes, and gorgeous. There was no better choice; she was born to play that role. In the first episode, "The New Original Wonder Woman," we get the background story for why Wonder Woman comes to America. She finds out that ...
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