Wonder Woman By Gloria Steinem Summary

In the article “Wonder Woman” Gloria Steinem expresses that the making of female super-heroes empowers females by reducing the fixed theme of a Caucasian male saving an inferior female. She displays this by showing how inferior women were before in male super-hero comic books, compares what it was like personally reading female super-hero comics to male super-hero comics as a child, the fight with other women to have the original Wonder Woman published in Ms. Magazine and how even males were changed by the making of Wonder Woman. First and foremost Steinem begins to exhibit how females were left to feel inferior by only having male super-heroes in comic books that perpetually gave women the minor task to help, feelings of gratefulness for

She expresses how she felt that she was rescued from feeling the dependent fate on men that came along with reading male super-hero comics and had increased hope that women were finally able to be shown as strong and dependable for a change. When reading a male super-hero comic Steinem feels bored with the plain played out Superman gadgets and is tired of the theme of a male always saving the female, as if she doesn’t have her own power. Steinem admires that the Wonder Woman comic book gives the lesson that everyone may have unknown powers in themselves but you would have to believe in and practice them, this boost her hope in the female culture versus when reading Superman and feeling submissive. Steinem admires that Wonder Woman had different technique than Superman when rescuing because she did not use violence. Steinem feels that Wonder Woman was stronger than Superman because she had the strength and ability of a male super-hero but did not use violence; instead she converted people to peace, self-reliance, and respect for the right of others. To Steinem this is one main key that helps Wonder Woman comics attempt to take away the marginalization of women found in male super-hero