"Jill Lepore has joined that small group of authors like John McPhee whose work I will read regardless of the topic. Her new book on the first female superhero is a bombshell. Revealing the hidden story of the creator of Wonder Woman, a Harvard psychologist, and his unusual bohemian life (one and sometimes two other women lived with him and his wife, one the niece of Margaret Sanger with whom he had two children), Lepore explores early 20th century feminism and popular culture in a history/biography combination that I couldn’t put down."
Publisher Vintage
Publication Date 2015-07-07
Section New Titles - Paperback / Women's Studies / All Staff Suggestions / Nonfiction Suggestions / Carole H.
Format Paperback
ISBN 9780804173407
Wonder Woman, created in 1941, on the brink of World War II, is the most popular female superhero of all time. Aside from Superman and Batman, she has lasted the longest and commanded the most vast and wildly passionate following. Like every other superhero, Wonder Woman has a secret identity. Unlike others, she also has a secret history.
In Jill Lepore’s riveting work of historical detection, Wonder Woman’s story provides 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.
This edition includes a new afterword with fresh revelations based on never before seen letters and photographs from the Marston family’s papers.
