She is the most popular female superhero of all time and has remained through the decades as a symbol of female strength and power.

But with a Wonder Woman movie now finally in the works, what were her creator’s original intentions.

William Moulton Marston said he wished to create a figure that advocated  the benefits of matriarchy in the 1940s. Yet not an episode went by that his heroine wasn’t tied up in some strange bondage situation.

Writer Tim Hanley, author of  Wonder Woman Unbound:  The Curious history of the World’s Most Famous Heroine explores the subject on The Green Room- Listen Below:

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