The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore

James McConnachie Sunday Times 'The book I read most eagerly and discussed most avidly in 2014 was The Secret History of Wonder Woman. A startling and intelligent double biography.' Jill Lepore unmasks the comic-strip heroine as the strange daughter of early 20th-century women's suffrage and the bondage-fixated imagination of William Moulton Marston, a hucksterish psychologist who invented the lie-detector test and lived in a covert threesome with his. 'All superheroes have strange myths of origin, but the politically and erotically charged back-story of Wonder Woman outstrips any comic book. 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. Delving into the life of Wonder Woman's eccentric creator, psychologist William Moulton Marston, Lepore uncovers 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. 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. Unlike every other superhero, she also has a secret history. Like every other superhero, Wonder Woman has a secret identity. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational (U) Tertiary Education (US: College).

This book uncovers a trove of documents, including the private papers of William Moulton Marston, Wonder Woman's creator. Wonder Woman, created in 1941, is the most popular female superhero of all time. According to Lepore, Sanger was not pleased with the arrangement).Description for The Secret History of Wonder Woman Paperback. Imagine trying to explain all that to Sanger.

In fact, Byrne’s second child with Marston is only six months older than Holloway’s second child with Marston.

Marston would go on to have two children with Holloway – and another two children with Byrne. Lepore writes that a third woman, Marjorie Wilkes Huntley, would also live with them all for stints at a time. You see, Marston lived with both Holloway and Byrne (who “married” and was quickly widowed, though Lepore writes that her betrothed was eventually revealed to be a complete fabrication). Lepore defines their relationship more as polygynous, something perhaps best described as akin to Sister Wives. Calling it an “affair” is doing both of them (well, three of them, including Marston’s wife Holloway) a huge disservice. According to Lepore, defining Marston’s relationship with Byrne is difficult, especially in their early years.

The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore