The secret history of Wonder Woman / Jill Lepore.
Publisher: Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2014Description: xiv, 410 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781925106329 (hardback)
- Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966
- Marston, William Moulton, 1893-1947
- Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966
- Wonder Woman, (Fictitious character)
- Marston, William Moulton, 1893-1947
- Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966
- Marston, William Moulton, 1893-1947
- Wonder Woman, (Fictitious character)
- Marston, William Moulton, 1893-1947
- Comic books, strips, etc. -- United States -- History
- Psychologists -- History
- Feminism -- History
- Women -- History
- Women superheroes -- History
- Lie detectors and detection -- History
- Comic books, strips, etc
- Feminism
- Lie detectors and detection
- Psychologists
- Women
- Women superheroes
- Wonder Woman (Fictitious character)
- Wonder Woman (Fictitious character)
- Wonder Woman (Fictitious character) -- History
- Women's rights -- United States -- History
- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Social aspects
- Feminism in literature
- Literature and society -- United States
- Women superheroes -- United States
- Feminism -- United States -- History
- United States
- Feminism
- Role models
- Fiction
- United States
- Literature
- Overseas item
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Like every other superhero, Wonder Woman has a secret identity. Unlike every other superhero, she also has a secret history. Drawing from an astonishing trove of documents, including never-before-seen 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. Delving into the life of Wonder Woman's eccentric creator, psychologist William Moulton Marston, Lepore uncovers her feminist origins: from the warrior princesses of the Amazon, to suffragists including Emmeline Pankhurst, and the women Marston shared his life with - his wife and his mistress. The Secret History of Wonder Woman is at once a riveting work of pop-culture history, and a crucial insight into the struggle for women's rights in the twentieth century and the troubled place of feminism today.
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