#elizabeth holloway marston

[cyanide-sippy-cup]

Friendly reminder that the guy who made Wonder Woman was polyamorous and based her on his wife and their girlfriend. Can you imagine? To love someone so much that you use your position to portray them as a literal goddess of love and hope and truth? And to fill that concept with so much love and heart that she becomes one of the three pillars holding up DC as a whole? Those are the things the world is built on I think.

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

Wonder Woman's bracelets were inspired by those worn by Olive Byrne, who the character was primarily based on. Byrne was in a polyamorous relationship with William and Elizabeth Marston and is said to have worn the bracelets to represent their unofficial marriage in lieu of wedding rings.

[maxwellshimbo]

Happy Birthday Elizabeth Holloway Marston 🎂 co creator of Wonder Woman, feminist, kinky polyam icon 🙌

This is her official Wikipedia picture and I love it.

[magentacat]

Golden Age Wonder Woman always goes hard.

[singing-not-sleeping-beauty]

when your psych professor asks you to write a paper disproving the polygraph test & one of your special interests is the history of golden age comic publication

[theparadiseproject]

William Moulton Marston definitely was inspired by the women in his life that were dedicated to activism and he did take suggestions from his wife such as making his character a woman but Marston is the sole creator of the character. It's not "the Marston's" or anything like that. There were no co creators, collaborators, or anything like that involved in the making of Wonder Woman. Marston created her but many of the Wonder Woman media sphere and historians and those interested in the character are dedicated in over representing and over emphasizing the role those women, including his wife, had in the creation of the character when in reality they are not anything akin to what is trying to be portrayed and their contributions are often overstated to emphasize a narrative instead of speaking the truth of the work and the character and her creator.

[orlissa]

I was at a book launch with a friend last night--the book itself was a richly illustrated album containing biographies of women from history wo, for different reasons - forward in romance, having power, demanding recognition - were labelled a whore during their lifetime. It was written by two very sweet women, and whole launch was just lovely.

The friend bought the book and some of their earlier stuff (the yhave written several similar books on women's history before, and one of them also has several historical novels published), and we remained behind to have them signed and to have a few words with the authors - and I mentioned them that they would surely find William Moulton Marston's story fascinating with his "pro-women" crusade and two wives who pretty much enabled his carreer (the authors were fascinated, made a note of it, and thanked me for the tip).

And then somebody behind my back just yelled in "akshually, the two women were in love with each other, not with Marston."

First of all, RUDE. Second of all, you have seen Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, have you? Bless your heart.

I hate that movie. Okay, I have a love-hate relationship with it, because it does a good job at explaining Martson theory. But all the historical bits are basically bullshit, and let's be clear here: the movie was written and directed by a lesbian woman, and she pretty much pushed the envelope on the clear lesbian angle.

The truth is... we will problaly never know the whole story. But the facts: 1, Marston brough Olive into the relationship, and pretty much said that Elizabeth either accepts her, or he is choosing Olive. Elizabeth wasn't present for the beginning of the relationship. 2, Marston did have this idea that a woman who has sexual relations with another woman will be a better lover for her man 3, The children (both Elizabeth and Olive had two kids from Marston) didn't know that they were biologically half-siblings, or that Olive and Marston were lovers. Olive An, Elizabeth's daughter, still said, as late as in 1999, that Olive was their housekeeper. 4, After Marston's death in 1947, Olive and Elizabeth lived together for the rest of their lives, altough Marston's biographer, Jill Lepore, puts it down firmly that they had seperate bedrooms (which the other end of the envelope pushing, imho).

So it's likely that there was something between Elizabeth and Olive, but it's clearly Marston who was the center of this relationship-universe. To say that the primary relationship was between Elizabeth and Olive is inaccurate.

...And to yell it from behind my back while I'm talking to the authors is rude.

[a-queer-little-wombat]

Hand one, more people should know about this.

Hand two, this downplays his wife's role, the role of their marriage's third partner, and for fucks sake, doesn't even mention their names - Elizabeth Holloway and Olive Byrne.

So keep reading more about this, friends, and learn some history:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/origin-story-wonder-woman-180952710/

So there was this psychologist who invented a type of blood pressure test, and while testing it on his wife, he noticed her blood pressure seemed to be elevated when she was angry or excited. This fact lead to a California police officer named John Augustus Larson to develop the polygraph, aka "lie detector", by combining the blood pressure test with several other measurements in an attempt to determine if the subject is lying.

This has lead the psychologist to be known as the father of the polygraph, even though he didn't directly invent it. He definitely tried to commercialize it, though including appearing in a series of ads for Gillette Razors, using the lie detector as a theme.

A few years after the invention of the polygraph, he published a book titled "Emotions of Normal People", heavily based on the original research of his life partner (as he and his wife were in a polyamorous relationship, living together for many years (including 50 years after his death!) and having two of his children). In it, he provided a defense of many sexual taboos. In it, he developed the DISC theory: dominance, inducement, submission, and compliance. He assigned active and passive to emotions and behaviors, and environments as antagonistic and favorable, and theorized how these different attitudes and environments interacted. For example, "Submission produces passivity in a favorable environment".

This was pretty much exactly as BDSMy as it sounds, with him also having theories about how the masculine drive for freedom was inherently violent, whereas women could use their "loving allure" to lead people to an ideal state of submission to loving authority.

Anyway in 1940 he was interviewed by his life partner under a pseudonym, and said that there was great potential for education in the medium of comic books. This interview got read by Max Gaines, a comics books publisher, who co-founded All-American Publications (one of the companies that later merged with National Comics Publications to form DC Comics). The psychologist was hired on as an educational consultant.

After a conversation with his wife about creating a new super hero based on fighting with love instead of fists, he took the idea to Max Gaines and was given approval to create a comic under this idea. His wife's main contribution was the idea that the hero should be a woman.

In any case, the polyamorous psychologist with a bondage kink who had formerly helped invent the lie detector went on to develop his super hero comic based on all these influences. So in 1941, under the pseudonym of Charles Moulton (combining his name of William Moulton Marston with Max Gaines' middlename), the first issue of Wonder Woman was published under the Sensation Comics line:

[yourdailyqueer]

Do you have people that are poly?

Just to name a few:

Jena Malone - Pansexual

Olive Byrne (deceased) - Bisexual

Elizabeth Holloway Marston (deceased) - Bisexual (poly with Olive Byrne)

Bill Kaulitz - Queer

Griffon Ramsey - Pansexual

Nowacking (Jesse Nowack) - Queer trans man

Caroline Giuliani - Pansexual

Bob the Drag Queen - Non binary & pansexual (she/he)

Bethany C. Meyers - Non binary & queer (they/them)

Yungblud - Non binary & pansexual (he/him)

Arrows Fitz - Trans non binary & queer (he/they)

Willow Smith - Bisexual

Nico Tortorella - Non binary & bisexual (they/them)

Gabe Dunn - Non binary & bisexual (he/they)

[aboutzatanna]

Zatanna and Blue Devil/Daniel Cassidy as a show business power couple with their respective side kicks Zatara and Kid Devil being frenemies-turned-lovers would be my dream true.

Oh heck, make it a power throuple with Wonder Woman, Zatanna and Blue Devil. That would really please the ghosts of Marston, Olivia Byrne and Elizabeth Holloway.

[thegreenwitchy]

A paper I wrote a few years ago. I have take out name, class, date, etc for privacy reasons

WONDER WOMAN, ALTHOUGH COMING FROM A FETISHIZED BACKGROUND, WAS CREATED TO BE A TRUE FEMINIST.

Wonder Woman was not created to be a typical superhero for DC Comics. William “Charles” Marston created Wonder Women to save the world in so many ways. World War II started on September 1, 1939, and two years later, Marston created Wonder Woman as psychological propaganda to end WWII and wars to come. Married and working with his wife Elizabeth Holloway in the psychology department at Tufts University in the 1920s, they both worked on building the lie detector machine. Elizabeth and William found Olive Bryne who volunteered to help the Marstons in their research, the three together were able to complete the lie detector in 1921. Over dinner, all three had discussed Olive’s origins; Olive expressed that she was the niece of Margaret Sanger. Both Elizabeth and William in 1912 had marched with Margaret’s Sanger in her campaign in educating women in sex and to express free love. As the three grew close it was clear to them they had feelings for each other; William believed that both of the women who he grew to love more together were the best qualities of women. Marston had confidence that women could use their charms and feminine aspects to change the world as it had changed him using truth, love, and dominance. Behind the scenes when BDSM (Bondage and Discipline, Dominance and Submission, Sadochism and Masochism) was illegal the three would go privately to shibari; the art of rope shows expressing the ideas of dominance and submission. While teaching at Tuft, William taught what is called the DISC theory standing for Dominance, Influence, Submission, Compliance. William Marston believed that men needed to submit to women but they wouldn’t do it willingly. I am convinced with the background history of BDSM, Wonder Woman was created with the values to be a feminist pop icon. 

Professor Marston and his Theories 

Marston was one of the first in his field in 1920 to practice and teach about D/s, which stands for Dominance and Submission. After teaching law, Marston in 1922 went on to teach Psychology. He taught young women in his classes DISC standing for Dominance, Influence, Submission, And Compliance: “Marston proposed that human behavior was directed principally by domination and loving submission. Related to this model were Marston’s views on female equality and his belief that women should rule the world, given their greater capacity for love.” He believed that men wouldn't willingly submit and that it would take women of the world to help. Throughout Wonder Woman, people can see Marston’s beliefs of dominance and submission his mistress Olive said “The Marston psychology of living…was injected into every page of WW.” He suspected that during his time in the 1920s that women were not up to date. He felt women were ashamed of themselves for the stereotypes of being weak, small, without a voice. I give credit to Lepore shedding light on behalf of Marston’s creation where Marston through Wonder Woman wanted to fight these beliefs for women that they shouldn’t feel ashamed but to feel empowered through Wonder Woman, “She wore a golden tiara, a red bustier, blue underpants and knee-high, red leather boots. She was a little slinky; she was very kinky. She’d left Paradise to fight fascism with feminism, in “America, the last citadel of democracy, and of equal rights for women!” I believe that is why he loved his wife Elizabeth for the way she was outspoken, fierce, brave, and had a work ethic and also loved his girlfriend Olive for she was submissive but was confident, bold, and shared her truth with hesitation. However for all his beliefs, while also marching with one of the most well respected and known feminists Margaret Sanger, William wouldn’t share his secrets with the world and kept his secrets in Wonder Woman “For all his love of the spotlight and desire for respect and fame, Marston was never radical enough to openly stake his gender privilege against his ideals.” Marston, secretly with his wife and mistress during the time BDSM gatherings were illegal, would practice the lifestyle. Throughout the pages of the comic book of WW, people can catch bondage, chains, gags, and spanking. Between both men and women there was always a level of dominance and submission however women in his comic always dominated and prevailed. 

His family of two women and four children

Marston and  Elizabeth Holloway met as younger children. Growing up Holloway would occasionally dress as a boy and it excited Marston to change his view of what gender was. Holloway and Marston argued and fought but he always respected her viewpoints and how smart she was and always gave her credit for that. William and Elizabeth got married in 1915 and when once asked why she got married to Marston she said she was always afraid she would stand behind Marston’s shadow but that he respected her. The two worked very closely at home and at work, both working in the psychology field.  Marston met Olive Bryne in 1925 and was her psychology professor. When Marston fell in love with Ms. Bryne, he gave his wife two options; either they all lived together in a relationship or he would leave her for Olive.  Elizabeth Hollaway invited Olive Bryne to move in. Both women gave birth to William Marston’s children both have two kids. Hollaway went to work while Bryne stayed home and raised the children. It wasn’t until Later the Byrnes children found out their father was Charles Marston in the 60s.  Marston, Holloway, and Byrne later as years went on participated in kink parties with 10 other individuals. Most of the parties were women dominatrix making their men submit to them. I am confident a lot of where Marston had got his ideas for Wonder Women and her stories that involve chains, whips, gags, rope, and bondage. I appreciate that Lepore was able to see however through the kink it was able to show Marston’s agenda through kink that there are feminist values in the comic, “The seemingly paradoxical themes of feminism and salacious sexual activities pervade the book from its opening pages, where Lepore describes the superheroine as “very kinky.” Cunningly, Lepore aligns Wonder Woman’s secret identity with the secret history of both her feminist roots and Marston’s political feminist agenda.”

Margaret Sanger 

When Marston was a student Margaret Sanger had attended his campus in 1912 to share with females her ideas on feminism and birth control. Marston was so moved by Sanger’s ideas to get the rights for women to vote. I regard it as true that Wonder Woman was inspired by the two women in Marston’s life Margaret and her niece Olive Bryne. While Bryne lived with Marston and his Wife Elizabeth, Lepore explains the importance of this relationship, “She was also the niece of Margaret Sanger, one of the most important feminists of the 20th century. In 1916, Sanger and her sister, Ethel Byrne, Olive Byrne’s mother, had opened the first birth-control clinic in the United States. They were both arrested for the illegal distribution of contraception. In jail in 1917, Ethel Byrne went on a hunger strike and nearly died.”  Walsh emphasizes how Sanger and Bryne inspired him explaining, “The voices of the real women in Marston’s life come through in carefully preserved Family Circle articles written by Olive Byrne, Marston’s mistress, Sanger’s niece, and the inspiration for Wonder Woman.” If you look at one of both photos you can see where Wonder Woman and A feminist artist Lou Rodgers’s art piece look almost alike. I am of the opinion that different artwork of feminist propaganda helped inspire Marston. Marston with three different feminists in his life it’s hard to argue that Wonder Woman wasn’t created with feminist values. Margaret Sanger would chain herself with chains to different poles to fight for the right for women to be able to vote and through the comics, you can see Wonder Woman busting out of the chains of “toxic masculinity” freeing herself with feminism. 



Bibliography 

Hilty, Joan. “The Strongest and Wisest Amazon.” Women’s Review of Books 32, no. 3 (May 2015): 5–7. 

Lepore, Jill. Secret History of Wonder Woman. New York, New York: Vintage, 2015. 

Lepore, Jill. “The Surprising Origin Story of Wonder Woman.” Smithsonian.com. Smithsonian Institution, October 1, 2014. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/origin-story-wonder-woman-180952710/.

Ormrod, Joan. “The Secret History of Wonder Woman/Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in the Marston/Peter Comics, 1941-1948.” Cinema Journal 55, no. 1 (Fall 2015): 187–92. doi:10.1353/cj.2015.0074.

 Professor Marston and The Wonder Women. Italia: Sony pictures home entertainment, 2017.

Walsh, Colleen. “Harvard Receives Personal Papers of Wonder Woman's Complex Creator.” Harvard Gazette. Harvard Gazette, September 7, 2017. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/09/harvard-receives-personal-papers-of-wonder-womans-complex-creator/. 

[hollywoodbabylone]

Wonder Woman's Secret BDSM History

Very little is known of the inspiration behind Wonder Woman Wonder Woman has been a symbol of strength for women in the feminist movement. But very little is known of the erotic themes explored in Wonder Woman’s early years. Her creator William Moulton Marston was a Harvard educated psychologist, professor and radical feminist. He and his wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston invented an early…

Wonder Woman’s Secret BDSM History

[proyectomerlina]

¿Qué creen que tienen en común la Mujer Maravilla, el detector de mentiras y el poliamor? Pues, todo fue idea de William Moulton Marston, un sicólogo estadounidense con una vida tan interesante como su mente. Además de ser el creador de la heroína más famosa del cómic, Marston también practicaba el poliamor y tenía una relación con dos mujeres, Olive Byrne y Elizabeth Holloway (quienes era, además, mujeres brillantes de su época psicólogas y escritoras excepcionales) y le interesaba el sadomasoquismo, práctica que analizó en innumerables artículos psicológicos. Además, a este hombre de principios de siglo XX, era un defensor del feminismo y creía en el poder de la mujer, por lo que creó a la Mujer Maravilla como un símbolo de empoderamiento femenino. ¡Pero eso no es todo! ¿Nunca se han preguntado de donde surgió toda la simbología detrás del personaje de la Mujer Maravilla? Uffff... no se lo esperan. Además de inspirarse en las prácticas sadomasoquistas para ciertos artículos de su vestimenta, como los brazaletes, las cadenas y el lazo... él, sin duda, apoyaba la lucha del sufragio femenino, lo que le inspiró mucho más al momento de diseñar a la mujer empoderada perfecta (además que las cadenas también eran un simbolismo de las sufragistas quienes se encadenaban a congresos y centros de votación como muestra de protesta. ¡Vaya mezcla explosiva! Ahhhhh... pero ¿ustedes creen que ya terminé? Solo los dejo con esto último: Marston también inventó el detector de mentiras, que se basaba en los cambios fisiológicos de la persona al mentir. Este invento fue utilizado por el FBI durante muchos años y todavía se usa hoy en día en algunas circunstancias. Y, por si fuera poco, sus estudios sobre psicología, la electricidad y la mecánica de fluidos también son aplicables en el mundo moderno. Así que ya saben, nunca se sabe quién está detrás de las cosas más fascinantes y mundanas. Sigue explorando y descubriendo curiosidades que te sorprendan. ¡Parece chiste, pero es anécdota! #mujermaravilla #williammoultonmarston #poliamor #detectordementiras #sufragiofemenino #feminismo #empoderada #mujeresempoderadas #curiosidades #sorpresa #exploración (en Planeta Tierra) https://www.instagram.com/p/CrtM6YMuNja/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

Nina Simone was a contemporary to and political organizer alongside Kwame Ture, James Baldwin, and Malcum X, and others.

Her voice carried a generation of activists and organizers into the fray like a warcry, and her writing and speeches and participation in the conversation was such a source of critical reflection and empowerment, and Simone was comprehensive in her analysis of the systems of power that needed dismantling.

Today, her career's acknowledged reputation is largely reduced to some of her less provacative songs, but in communities she touched during her life, Simone's voice is still an inspiration.

Simone will likely always have a complex and challenging legacy, like so many who make the kind of cultural impact she did. She was one of many women in the movements to be messily human in ways that became excuses to forget them, like Billie Holiday, Lucy Stone, Afeni Shakur Davis, Shirley Chisholm, Helen Douglas, Elizabeth Holloway Marston, Margo Okazawa-Rey, and so many others.

I suspect that in many ways, their messiness as humans is part of what makes them the cultural change-makers they are and were.

What Happened, Miss Simone? (2015)

[cleoenfaserum]

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Professor Marston and the Wonder Women is a 2017 American biographical drama film about American psychologist William Moulton Marston, who created the fictional character Wonder Woman. The film, was directed and written by Angela Robinson.

source actress-playground (account deleted by Tumbler) Bella Heathcote (30) in Professor Marston and The Wonder Woman (2017)

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Wonder Woman is a 2017 superhero film based on the DC Comics character of the same name.  The film was directed by Patty Jenkins and written by Allan Heinberg, based on a story conceived by Heinberg, Zack Snyder, and Jason Fuchs. It is the second live action theatrical film featuring Wonder Woman following her debut in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. In Wonder Woman, the Amazon princess Diana sets out to stop World War I, believing the conflict was started by the longtime enemy of the Amazons, Ares, after American pilot and spy Steve Trevor crash-lands on their island Themyscira and informs her about it.

Wonder Woman is one of the greatest comic book movies ever made. It’s compelling and beautiful, uplifting but tragic, and a rare example of a modern movie with a timeless feel. Just like the stunning “No Man’s Land” scene, it is, without question, a masterpiece. All 7 Wonder Woman movies ranked

Wonder Woman, the Amazon princess Diana sets out to stop World War I, believing the conflict was started by the longtime enemy of the Amazons, Ares, after American pilot and spy Steve Trevor crash-lands on their island Themyscira and informs her about it.

William Moulton Marston (May 9, 1893 – May 2, 1947), also known by the pen name Charles Moulton, was an American psychologist who, with his wife Elizabeth Holloway, invented an early prototype of the polygraph. He was also known as a self-help author and comic book writer who created the character Wonder Woman.

Two women, his wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston, and their polyamorous life partner, Olive Byrne, greatly influenced Wonder Woman's creation.

He was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2006.

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[theparadiseproject]

A note from Pete’s brother Byrne in his official obituary offers an inside peek at Pete’s role in early Wonder Woman comics:

My brother Pete was always a man of enormous imagination. As a kid, he was a dreamer. When we were teenagers our dad, who was often under pressure to produce scripts for his Wonder Woman superheroine, offered $100 to anyone writing a usable scenario for a Wonder Woman episode. Though $100 was a fortune at that time, Pete was the only one of us who could dream them up.

Pete seemed to have had a good relationship with his father. On top of pitching plots for Wonder Woman, Pete also left Harvard in the mid-1940s to return home and help care for his father. William Moulton Marston had polio and cancer, and passed away in 1947. It’s lovely that Pete created such a testament to his father’s creation with his Wonder Woman Museum. The museum is also a testament to the women who raised him; Pete’s mother, Elizabeth, gave Marston the idea to create a female superhero, and the Marstons lived in a polyamorous relationship with Olive Byrne, who raised the kids (Marston had two with each woman) and also inspired key elements of Wonder Woman’s look and personality.

Regrettably, I never got the chance to interact with Pete directly, though his daughter Christie was a great help when I was researching Wonder Woman Unbound and I know that Pete had a big hand in the materials that she sent me and the recollections that she was able to share. By all accounts, he was a kind and warm man; everyone who visited the museum (a guest list that included Lynda Carter herself!) seemed to come away with an appreciation and affection not just for its myriad wonderful items but also for the man who assembled it all.

-January 19, 2017