How Wonder Woman Got Her Groove Back

Published: Jan. 13, 2021, 5 a.m.

Wonder Woman is the best known female superhero of all time, but she\u2019s been through a lot. The brainchild of a psychologist, Wonder Woman hit the comic pages in the 1940s as an antidote to the \u201cbloodcurdling masculinity\u201d of male superheroes. But by the early \u201870s, Wonder Woman was having a midlife crisis. She\u2019d given up her bullet-blocking bracelets and lasso of truth\u2026and opened a clothing boutique. It took a feminist magazine cover to make-over Wonder Woman from comic book character to the icon she remains today.\xa0