Wonder Woman

Vera J. Camden is Professor of English at Kent State University, USA, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University, USA, and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center, USA. She is Editor most recently of the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis. Co-editor of American Imago and American editor of the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, she specializes in seventeenth-century British literature, psychoanalysis, and comics. Valentino L. Zullo holds a PhD in English from Kent State University, USA. He is the Ohio Center for the Book Scholar-in-Residence at Cleveland Public Library where he co-leads the Get Graphic program and American editor of the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. He is also licensed social worker practicing as a maternal depression therapist at OhioGuidestone and a candidate for psychoanalytic training at the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center.

Foreword Introduction – Wonder Woman and the public humanities: a reflection on the 2016 Wonder Woman Symposium Part I: On Wonder Woman 1. Wonder Woman, feminist Icon? Queer icon? No, love icon 2. Wonder Woman 1987– 1990: the Goddess, the Iron Maiden and the sacralisation of consumerism 3. By Sappho’s Stylus! Reading Wonder Woman with Wertham 4. Wonder Woman: superheroine, not superhero Part II: Wonder Woman’s Contemporaries 5. Babes in arms 6. Empire of a wicked woman: Catwoman, royalty, and the making of a comics icon Part III: Interviews 7. Truth, justice, and the Amazonian way: an interview with Greg Rucka 8. Plain Dealing Women: Lois Lane and the Origin of the Comic Book Heroine– A Conversation with Laura Siegel Larson 9. Wonder Woman symposium audience Q & A with Christie Marston Afterword: tales of wonder in dark times