Download Wonder Woman Psychology Lassoing the Truth Popular Culture Psychology Travis Langley Mara Wood Trina Robbins Books

Product details Series Popular Culture Psychology (Book 6) Paperback 352 pages Publisher Sterling (April 4, 2017) Language English ISBN-10 1454923431

Wonder Woman Psychology Lassoing the Truth Popular Culture Psychology Travis Langley Mara Wood Trina Robbins Books Reviews

• An excellent resource for understanding the history and psychology behind Wonder Woman. Whether you're new to the character and want to know where she came from or are a longtime fan and want to delve more deeply into her underpinnings, Wonder Woman Psychology is a great read. It's a collection of essays by various writers who cover a wide range of Wonder Woman-related topics, covering her 75-year history. Highly highly highly recommended!
• I absolutely love these books. They are so fun to learn more about the character and what makes them, them even as fictional characters. This book focused so much on Wonder Woman's creation, her creator and his deeply held feminist beliefs. You learn he helped create the lie detector test, he believed strongly in a future matriarch and women were perfectly capable of surviving and thriving in charge. I loved the look at why Wonder Woman does what she does, her search for truth, her beginnings and continued story. She is legendary and will always be legendary. She's a role model, first for women, next for everybody. I love learning more about the inner workings of heroes.
• well written with good information on the creation of the Wonder Woman character.
• Really great information - used a lot of this for a presentation I did in a History symposium.
• Very informative and up-to-date
• Excellent
• Wonder Woman Psychology; Lassoing the Truth takes an in-depth look into what makes the world's most powerful female superhero tick. The Princess was created by psychologist William Moulton Marston, under the pen name of Charles Moulton. It was Martson's wife, Elizabeth Holloway Marston, who suggested he make the comic about a woman. Editors Travis Langley and Mara Wood do a phenomenal job covering portions of Marston's personal history and theories, as well as educating readers on the psychology of Wonder Woman; a morally healthy character.
  
  Wonder Woman Psychology is packed with many A-list of contributors beginning with the writer of the foreword, Trina Robbins, the first woman artist/writer to work on the Wonder Woman comics. In addition to Robbins, the book also includes a short interview by entertainment journalist Jenna Busch of Susan Eisenberg, who voiced Wonder Woman in the Justice League animated series. The peppering of panels from the comics serve to highlight many of the key analyses, and I especially liked the timeline of entertainment firsts. For example, many people may not realize that Wonder Woman's first live action performance was by Cathy Lee Crosby in a 1974 television movie and not Lynda Carter in the widely popular 1975 television series.
  
  One of the most fascinating chapters is a portion of a memoir written by Elizabeth Holloway Marston entitled "The Tale of a Manx Cat". According to the editors, this piece has never before appeared in print. In it, E.H. Marston details her youth, provides glimpses of her courtship with W.M. Marston and ends shortly after the birth of the couple's first child.
  
  As a lifelong Wonder Woman fan I learned more than I expected from this book. For instance, I was engrossed by the chapter in which Wood discusses Marston's DISC theory which has been recognized for its importance in the history of psychology. Marston's theory, which stands for Dominance, Inducement, Submission and Compliance, is explained via examples from Wonder Woman's own history which makes it easy to understand and engaging. Another highlight for me was the chapter by Mike Madrid and Rebecca M. Langley, dealing with "Parenting Issues in Paradise." I found the discussion on the attachment theory to be very insightful to both Wonder Woman's psyche and my own.
  
  The wide array of contributors, who range from comic book historians, martial artists, therapists, and Ph.D.s in psychology among other professions, makes this non-fiction book about a fictional character very appealing. Each essay sheds light on the complexities of Wonder Woman's character while also equating her issues with themes and topics that are relevant in the real world.
  
  Wonder Woman Psychology Lassoing the Truth is thought-provoking and educational, but delivered in a format that acknowledges the character's enduring entertainment value and celebrates her well-deserved return to prominence in a traditionally male-dominated field. A must read for fans of Wonder Woman, both old and new.
• 4.5 Stars
  
  I won this book in a giveaway and then sat on it for months. I was never really a huge fan of Wonder Woman and never remembered entering the giveaway in the first place. Recently, I started watching the newer DC movies, including Wonder Woman with Gal Gadot. Having gone into it with such low expectations I was admittedly taken aback by how good the movie was and how well portrayed the characters were. I will give that movie full credit for getting me to finally pick up this book to get a better understanding of WW.
  
  This book discusses the creator of the original WW, William Moulton Marston, and his view of women, which was so completely ahead of his time. Convinced that the world needed women to be the dominant sex, and that they indeed already were, he created WW to show how he viewed a world with women at the helm. Creating WW to be both strong and sensitive, both a warrior and a maternal figure. I was blown away by the true depth that Marston gave WW. Having played an important role in the creation of forensic psychology, Marston understood human behavior more than a lot of people in his time. Which really gave him the ability to create a realistic individual, who just happens to be a woman, and show that everyone, both man and woman, are much more alike than some want to admit. Reading this book definitely solidified my appreciation of WW and I can’t thank the authors and contributors enough for that. WW is truly an inspirational role model to everyone; man/woman, young/old, rich/poor, and her character holds up exceptionally well to the test of time. I would highly recommend this read to anyone who holds an interest in psychology and/or in the DC character Wonder Woman.