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This close take a look at Wonder Woman's record portrays a complicated heroine who's more than only a female Superman with a gold lasso and bullet-deflecting bracelets. The original Wonder Female was ahead of her time, advocating female superiority and the benefits associated with matriarchy in the 1940s. At the same time, her creator filled the comics with titillating bondage imagery, and Surprise Woman was tied up as often as she saved the world. In the 1950s, Surprise Woman begrudgingly continued her superheroic objective, wishing she could relax with her boyfriend instead, all while constantly hinting at hidden lesbian leanings. While other female characters stepped ahead as women's lib became popular in the late 1960s, Wonder Female fell backward, losing her superpowers and flitting from man to man. Ms. newspaper and Lynda Carter restored Surprise Woman's feminist durability in the 1970s, turning her into a robust image as her checkered past was quickly neglected. Discovering this lost record adds new sizes to the world's most much loved female personality, and Surprise Female Unbound delves into her comic reserve and its own spin-offs as well as the myriad motivations of her designers to showcase the peculiar trip that led to Surprise Woman's iconic position.
