Superhero comics have long had much difficulty in their representations of superheroines and Wonder Women. This week we’ll be exploring Feminist rhetorical criticism and issues of sexism within the genderrepresentationsof comics and in the comics industry as we consider a history HERstory of the superheroine. Our graphic novel of the week is PROMETHEA, Alan Moore’s bold experiment in re-writing a Womyn Wonder that won accolades and mainstream attention for sparking more discussion of persistentGender Trouble in comics representation (the infamous WIR problem).
Also discussed will be Wonder Woman’s altered origin in DC’s new 52 relaunch.
The latest in a long line of failed attempts to address gender inequity and minority representation .
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