Distorted by misandry, I held onto that version until my first year of university. In high school, I was taught FEM-I-NI-SM. It was a history that I wasn’t privy to until I was taught The Persons Case in my Canadian history class in middle school. It’s a powerful word and words are keepers of history. Is it though? Feminism eluded me as a kid not because my parents were opposed to the idea of empowering a young woman but because they didn’t verbalize it with that particular word. To be fair, I didn’t know anyone aside from Batman and Superman but given the significance of the character as a feminist icon, it’s a bit surprising looking back. I didn’t know who Wonder Woman was until I was nine years old and she appeared in the first episode 2001’s Justice League. In doing this, I removed myself from the equation and haven’t asked what I thought about it on a personal level because that’s where it hooked me. I wanted to write this sweeping and grand analysis of the book, its criticisms and its role in not just the comics sphere but also in the history of feminism. It’s just that I’ve been approaching this book review from an “essayist” perspective. It’s not that I don’t have anything to say because I do. I read the Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore a few months back and have been struggling with this review ever since.
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