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Apr 18, 2016 · Abstract: A New York Times and National Bestseller and Winner of the 2015 American History Book Prize. "Ms. Lepore’s lively, surprising and occasionally salacious history is far more than the story of a comic strip. The author, a professor of history at Harvard, places Wonder Woman squarely in the story of women’s rights in America—a ...
Lepore is more interested in the many feminists — including Gloria Steinem, who put her on the first regular cover of Ms. in 1972 — who have been Wonder Woman fans. Too often, Lepore argues ...
Sep 15, 2014 · Jill Lepore on Wonder Woman’s real origin story: she was a utopian feminist creation, inspired by Margaret Sanger and the ideals of free love.
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Oct 23, 2014 · 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 story it relates has more uplift than Wonder Woman’s ...
Oct 28, 2014 · Jill Lepore. 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. Examines the life of Wonder Woman creator William Moulton Marston and his polyamorous relationship with wife Elizabeth ...
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Apr 6, 2022 · 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 ...
Jan 3, 2022 · Marston, William Moulton, 1893-1947, Wonder Woman (Fictitious character), Comic books, strips, etc. -- United States, Superhero comic books, strips, etc, Feminism -- United States -- History, Women's rights -- United States -- History, Women heroes in literature Publisher New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC Collection
