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Loading... The Secret History of Wonder Woman (original 2014; edition 2014)by Jill Lepore (Author)
Work InformationThe Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore (2014)
   No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) aysonohbata | Nov 8, 2024 |  I enjoyed this book. I never knew much of this history. Marston had a big ego and craved attention as he wrote articles and the Wonder Woman comic. The women were quieter but their contributions to his work were noted. I liked how the suffragette movement of the early 1900's was shown. I did not realize how feminism changed through the decades, how it died down then WWII happened making it come back into focus as women move into the work force, then how it was forced back after the war until the 1970's. I suspect Margaret Sanger and her sister Ethel Byrne are rolling over in their graves with the political situation that is occurring today, how much of their work is being undone. This is timely. It is an interesting history. Seeing how Wonder Woman changed through the decades is also interesting and knowing movies with her have been popular lately. I think Marston would have hated how his comic was changed after his death, but he would have been happy that she is still popular today. This is worth reading. ( ) Sheila1957 | Mar 20, 2023 | Some will be offended by the bondage and polyamory. Others will be offended by Marston sleeping with his research assistant and his subsequent ultimatum to his wife. Still others will be offended by by their disingenuous self promotion and promotion of each other without disclosing affiliation. *shrug* They were people living their lives, not role models, and one of the things about secrets is that people keep them to avoid censure. Part of me is sad that no one came out and said for certain whether Holloway and Olive were co-spouses or spouses, but 1. Holloway’s favorite book was Sappho and 2. It’s kind of not my business, and kind of doesn’t matter. They lived together for over sixty years. The lurid details are unimportant next to that. ( ) villyard | Dec 6, 2022 | ) Malaraa | Apr 26, 2022 | ) JBD1 | Dec 28, 2021 | no reviews | add a review
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HTML:A riveting work of historical detection revealing that the origin of one of the world’s most iconic superheroes hides within it a fascinating family story—and a crucial history of twentieth-century feminism Wonder Woman, created in 1941, is the most popular female superhero of all time. Aside from Superman and Batman, no superhero has lasted as long or commanded so vast and wildly passionate a following. Like every other superhero, Wonder Woman has a secret identity. Unlike every other superhero, she has also has a secret history. Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has uncovered an astonishing trove of documents, including the never-before-seen private papers of William Moulton Marston, Wonder Woman’s creator. Beginning in his undergraduate years at Harvard, Marston was influenced by early suffragists and feminists, starting with Emmeline Pankhurst, who was banned from speaking on campus in 1911, when Marston was a freshman. In the 1920s, Marston and his wife, Sadie Elizabeth Holloway, brought into their home Olive Byrne, the niece of Margaret Sanger, one of the most influential feminists of the twentieth century. The Marston family story is a tale of drama, intrigue, and irony. In the 1930s, Marston and Byrne wrote a regular column for Family Circle celebrating conventional family life, even as they themselves pursued lives of extraordinary nonconformity. Marston, internationally known as an expert on truth—he invented the lie detector test—lived a life of secrets, only to spill them on the pages of Wonder Woman. The Secret History of Wonder Woman is a tour de force of intellectual and cultural history. Wonder Woman, Lepore argues, is the missing link in the history of the struggle for women’s rights—a chain of events that begins with the women’s suffrage campaigns of the early 1900s and ends with the troubled place of feminism a century later. No library descriptions found. |
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