The Secret History of Wonder Woman

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Call Number: 741.597 Le
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Veritas -- Family circle -- Paradise island -- Great Hera! I'm back! -- Sources and acknowledgments -- Comics index.
A cultural history of Wonder Woman traces the character's creation and enduring popularity, drawing on interviews and archival research to reveal the pivotal role of feminism in shaping her seven-decade story.

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Stranger than Fiction History submitted by sdunav on June 12, 2015, 5:38pm I love this book so much I have a hard time summing it all up. Fascinating history, well-written, meticulously researched, with clever illustrations. Bondage, polyamory, lie detectors, Supreme Court decisions, feminists of all kinds, superheroes and comics and their effect on kids, there's just so much all intertwined.

Suffering Sappho! submitted by granumm on July 9, 2018, 10:27am Well-written and informative, this is not the story I was expecting to learn. Marston's life, career struggles, and sexual exploration - both academic and personal - weave together with the history of early 20th century feminism.

Wonder Woman! submitted by Adam Graham on August 31, 2018, 8:24pm This is a great book! I was amazed how much there is to learn about Wonder Woman's background and her creator. A fun read that weaves both history and academic writing.

Wonderful! submitted by wysea on July 29, 2019, 10:25am Jill Lepore fantastically weaves together the history of comics, Wonder Woman and Feminism. Each chapter is full of new surprises. She is a fabulous writer and this is an interesting group of people to learn about. This book would make an excellent film.

Wonder woman submitted by aamasud on June 17, 2020, 9:40pm Its a story of a wonder woman

Expose at the Intersection of Pop Culture and American History of the Women’s Fight for Equality submitted by sVfGI7Glt2pz7GZgVB90 on July 10, 2020, 7:02am Before he produced Wonder Woman, pop psychologist William Moulton Marston (pen name Charles Moulton) invented the lie detector test, advocated women's supremacy, and conjectured that in a thousand years peaceable Amazons would rule the world. However, he was also a clandestine bigamist and a spectacular hypocrite. His comic-book creation remains a study in contradictions.

When he created Wonder Woman, superpower- gifted male characters such as the Green Lantern and Superman, and Batman dominated the world of DC Comics.

The author Jill Lepore offers an essential insight to the early feminists, their extremism, their blind spots, and their astonishingly current awareness of the issues that women still face.

Lepore teaches American history at Harvard. Her 464-page prose is pointlessly extended, sometimes exasperatingly convoluted and nauseatingly ambiguous.