Like every other superhero, Wonder Woman has a secret identity. Unlike every other superhero, she also has a secret history.
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 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.
By:
Jill Lepore Imprint: Scribe Publications Country of Publication: Australia Dimensions:
Height: 198mm,
Width: 129mm,
Spine: 32mm
Weight: 422g ISBN:9781925106985 ISBN 10: 1925106985 Pages: 432 Publication Date:18 November 2015 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active