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- 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.
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Her origins lie in the feminism of the early 1900s, and the intertwined dramas that surrounded her creation are the stuff of pulp fiction and tabloid scandal….It took a super-sleuth to uncover the mysteries of this intricate history, hidden from view for more than half a century.
Wonder Woman first appeared in December 1941, wearing a bustier, high-heeled red boots and an American flag. To her readers, many grappling with the shock of Pearl Harbor, she promised to...
Oct 23, 2014 · Sonny Figueroa/The New York Times. By Dwight Garner. Oct. 23, 2014. Jill Lepore’s new book, “The Secret History of Wonder Woman,” is a long, strange thing to chew on. On the one hand, the...
Oct 28, 2014 · 3.73. 16,290 ratings2,399 reviews. 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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Wonder Woman, Jill 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.
- Jill Lepore
- Paperback
Jul 7, 2015 · — Entertainment Weekly The Secret History of Wonder Woman is a tour de force of intellectual and cultural history. Wonder Woman, Jill 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 ...
Aug 21, 2015 · History professor and journalist Jill Lepore takes the 1941 rubric introducing the tiara-wearing superhero as a challenge: she meticulously unpicks Wonder Woman’s origins to reveal there’s...
