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Drawing from an astonishing trove of documents, including neverbeforeseen private papers, harvard historian and new yorker staff writer jill lepore reveals the fascinating family story that sparked the invention of the most popular female superhero of all time. Jill lepores generously illustrated the secret history of wonder woman impressively links the iconic superheros 1941 creation by william moulton marston also the inventor of the lie detector both to the aims of midtwentiethcentury feminism and to the influential marston familys deep domestic intrigues. The secret history of wonder woman by jill lepore goodreads. Wonder woman, writes lepore historyharvard univ book of ages. She writes about american history, law, literature, and politics. Like every other superhero, wonder woman has a secret identity.

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She uncovers, unclothes, and satisfactorily binds with ropes and chains the better to dispose of it the myth that wonder woman was a feature of womans liberation rather than one of male dominance. The secret history of wonder woman, by jill lepore. I will never look at wonder womans bracelets the same way again. On the one hand, the story it relates has more uplift than wonder womans invisible. Jill leporeis the david woods kemper 41 professor of american history at harvard university and a staff writer atthe new yorker. She fights for womens rights, access to birth control, free love, and the importance of polyamory. The author reports on the unconventional life of wonder womans creator, william moulton marston, a psychologist and. The historian jill lepore examines the life and significance of wonder woman. Wonder woman, lepore declares, is the missing link in a chain of events that begins with the woman suffrage campaigns of the 1910s and ends with the troubled place of feminism fully a century.