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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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Apr 18, 2016 · 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 “avenge...
Apr 6, 2022 · English. xiv, 410 pages : 25 cm. 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.
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...
Oct 28, 2014 · Jill Lepore. 3.73. 16,317 ratings2,402 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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Oct 28, 2014 · [Lepore] fully tells Marston’s history for the first time, as well as the complete history of how so many crisp feminist ideas made their way into Wonder Woman comics. It’s complicated material that she capably explores…There are many profitable detours in this book: the history of female cartoonists; the moral panic over comics and ...
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.
