The History Of Wonder Woman's Homeland Explained

In the same way that you have to grasp the Kents to know Superman, there's no wrapping your head around Wonder Woman without a firm understanding of the isolated island where she grew up. Without the lessons she learned in her matriarchal society, there is no Wonder Woman. This is the history of Themyscira, explained.

Before diving into Wonder Woman's history on Themyscira, it's worth understanding why she was created in the first place. Where many years of fan service from the entertainment industry might lead you to believe that Wonder Woman was a cash grab to capitalize on young girls who weren't buying Golden Age comics, the real origin of the character is considerably more idealistic.

As the 2017 film Professor Marston & the Wonder Women depicts, William Moulton Marston created the character to put forward the idea of a feminist utopia, believing that a world led by women with the interests of women first would be a better one. The inventor and psychologist exaggerated the traits of the liberated women he saw around him, especially the two women he was in a polyamorous relationship with, and created a new kind of hero.

Marston wrote in The American Scholar about his most famous creation,

"Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power. Not wanting to be girls, they don't want to be tender, submissive, peace-loving as good women are. Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman."

For the moral of Wonder Woman to land, she couldn't be an anomaly in her world. She had to come from an entire nation of powerful women, whose world proved Marston's thesis of a better world built entirely by women. In short, Themyscira needed to be a paradise. Marston, who used pen name Charles Moulton, wrote at the time,

"Wonder Woman is psychological propaganda for the new type of woman who should, I believe, rule the world."

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