Contributors: The Myndi Mayer Foundation xi Acknowledgments xvii Editor's Note xix Introduction: In and For a World of Ordinary Mortals 1 Jacob M. Held Part I You Are a Wonder Woman 3 1 Becoming a (Wonder) Woman: Feminism, Nationalism, and the Ambiguity of Female Identity 5 J. Lenore Wright 2 The God of War is Wearing What? Gender in the New 52 19 Sarah K. Donovan 3 Wonder Woman vs. Harley Quinn: The Paradox of the Moral Hero 31 Jill Hernandez and Allie Hernandez 4 Great Hera! Considering Wonder Woman's Super Heroism 44 Trip McCrossin Part II Dispatches from Man's World 55 5 Wonder Woman: Feminist Faux Pas? 57 Andrea Zanin 6 Feminist Symbol or Fetish? Zîzëk, Wonder Woman, and Final Crisis 72 Matthew William Brake 7 When Clark Met Diana: Friendship and Romance in Comics 81 Matthew A. Hoffman and Sara Kolmes Part III When I Deal with Them, I Deal with Them 91 8 Bound to Face the Truth: The Ethics of Using Wonder Woman's Lasso 93 Melanie Johnson-Moxley 9 "What I Had to Do": The Ethics of Wonder Woman's Execution of Maxwell Lord 104 Mark D. White 10 Can a Warrior Care? Wonder Woman and the Improbable Intersection of Care Ethics and Bushido 115 Steve Bein 11 Wonder Woman: Saving Lives through Just Torture? 126 Adam Barkman and Sabina Tokbergenova 12 Wonder Woman Winning with Words: A Paragon of Wisdom, Disarming Threats One at a Time. 133 Francis Tobienne Jr.

Part IV God(s), Country, Sorority 141 13 Wonder Woman, Worship, and Gods Almighty: Purpose in Submission to Loving Authority 143 Jacob M. Held 14 Merciful Minerva in a Modern Metropolis 151 Dennis Knepp 15 Wonder Woman and Patriarchy: From Themyscira's Amazons to Wittig's Guérrillères 162 Mónica Cano Abadía Part V Tying Up Loose Ends 171 16 The Lasso of Truth? 173 James Edwin Mahon 17 Loving Lassos: Wonder Woman, Kink, and Care 188 Maria Chavez, Chris Gavaler, and Nathaniel Goldberg 18 Golden Lassos and Logical Paradoxes 198 Roy T. Cook and Nathan Kellen Index 209.