The Secret History of Wonder Woman

Posted on 04 August 2017 by 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 Holloway and mistress Olive Byrne, both of whom inspired and influenced the comic book character s creation and development Abstract from WorldCat Best Read [ The Secret History of Wonder Woman ] By [ Jill Lepore ] – kino-fada.fr If you are looking for a quick book that primarily focuses on Wonder Woman as the cover and title would expect you to encounter and an analysis of her origin story, look elsewhere I just read Ron Rege s alt comic form version of her origin story, Diana, which I suggest you check out if you have any interest in WW origins, but Lepore s book isn t about that, really or, it IS about Wonder Woman s origin...Jill Lepore is a bit of a wonder woman herself, certainly a wonder of a historian She uncovers, unclothes, and satisfactorily binds with ropes and chains the better to dispose of it the myth that Wonder Woman was a feature of woman s liberation rather than one of male dominance Sadly, the scantily clad Wonder Woman was modeled on the real life live in girlfriend of the psychologist who created her, and who himself exhibited the dominant male model all too well Lepore not only gives us the b Jill Lepore is a bit of a wonder woman herself, certainly a wonder of a historian She uncovers, unclothes, and satisfactorily binds with ropes and chains the better to dispose of it the myth that Wonder Woman was a feature of woman s liberation rather than one of male dominance Sadly, the scantily clad Wonder Woman was modeled on the real life live in girlfriend of the psychologist who created her, and who himself exhibited the dominant male model all too well Lepore not only gives us the background of William Moulton Marston, Harvard trained psychologist and developer of the systolic blood pressure polygraph, but also of his wife, Sadie Elizabeth Holloway, herself an almost PhD All But Dissertation who ...The bizarre history behind the creation of Wonder Woman is weird even for the world of superheroes.Jill Lepore who is amazing in her own right in that she s a history professor at Harvard and she writes for The New Yorker gives us the story of William Moulton Marston, an American psychologist and the man who invented the lie detector test After trying and failing in several careers, in 1941 he turned to the burgeoning field of comic books, and created Wonder Woman with the help of his wife an The bizarre history behind the creation of Wonder Woman is weird even for the world of superheroes.Jill Lepore who is amazing in her own right in that she s a history professor at Harvard and she writes for The New Yorker gives us the story of William Moulton Marston, an American psychologist and the man who invented the lie detector test After trying and failing in several careers, in 1941 he turned to the burgeoning field of comic books, and created Wonder Woman with t...Lepore convincingly makes Wonder Woman the connective tissue between the suffragists and the women s movement, but the story behind her genesis is just fricken amazing and almost unbelievable William Moulton Marston, Wonder Woman s creator and a man Glen Weldon accurately describes as decidedly skeevy, was, A, a man, B, married to one woman, sleeping with two others and living happily with all three, C, was fascinated by bondage and tied, chained, fettered and imprisoned WW, the first female Lepore convincingly ma...God, I wanted to like this So Much Excruciating Detail At first I found the detail interesting, but it wore thin when I found myself 20 percent of the way through the book with no comic book creation in sight I gave up soon after.There s no doubt Lepore has done a stellar job of researching this material a good example comes in the footnotes where she reveals how a murder trial William Moulton Marston Wonder Woman s creator testified as an expert at had been covered by no less than three different historical overviews, and nobody had realized the attorneys on the case were students of Marston Lepore digs deep into the historial trends of the time particularly the suffrage and birth control movements of the early 20th There s no doubt Lepore has done a stellar job of researching this material a good example comes in the footnotes where she reveals how a murder trial William Moulton Marston Wonder Woman s creator testified as an expert at had been covered by no less than three different historical overviews, and nobody had realized the attorneys on the case were students of Marston Lepore digs deep into the historial trends of the time particularly the suffrage and birth control movements of the early 20th Century, which have surprising connections to the origin of Wonder Woman and family records.Unfortunately, there s not a lot in the book to suggest Lepore is especially interested in Wonder Woman, or in Marston While the most interesting part of the book hands down is the open marriage Marston lived in with two other women both of whom contributed significantly to the origin of and influences on Wonder Woma...A fascinating account of William Moulton Marston, the man who created Wonder Woman, and the many women especially his wife, Elizabeth Holloway, and his partner, Olive Byrne who contributed to Marston s odd blend of psychosexual feminism I m a historian by training and a comics fan by chance, so combine the two and I m happy as a clam Megan Cavittfrom The Best Books We Read In November 2016 ____________________If...The Secret History of Wonder Woman is a terrific expos The book is a well researched biography of the quirky man who invented the Wonder Woman comic strip and character He successfully hid an unusual hive home life while in plain sight as a minor celebrity The world knew him as a psychologist and a somewhat nutty university professor, Wil...What does Wonder Woman, the superhero who first appeared in 1941, have to do with polyamory, pessaries, and the polygraph As Jill Lepore reports in her fascinating new work of nonfiction, The Secret History of Wonder Woman, everything Here are some of the book s most fascinating revelations 1 Psychologist and storyteller William Moulton Marston invented the first lie detector test while an undergraduate at Harvard He then created Wonder Woman, whose magic lasso could force men to tell the tr What does Wonder Woman, the superhero who first appeared in 1941, have to do with polyamory, pessaries, and the polygraph As Jill Lepore reports in her fascinating new work of nonfiction, The Secret History of Wonder Woman, everything Here are some of the book s most fascinating revelations 1 Psychologist and storyteller William Moulton Marston invented the first lie detector test while an undergraduate at Harvard He then created Wonder Woman, whose magic lasso could force men to tell the truth, at age...Actual rating 3.5 stars.This is a fascinating read about the creator of Wonder Woman, who was one exceptionally odd man He seems to have genuinely believed that women would rule the world, but his own home was far from a matriarchy he had one wife to work twelve hours a day in New York City, supporting the family, and another one both Margaret Sanger s niece, and a former student to raise the four children the two women managed to produce with him in the 1930s when she was not writing puf Actual rating 3.5 stars.This is a fascinating read about the creator of Wonder Woman, who was one exceptionally odd man He seems to have genuinely believed that women would rule the world, but his own home was far from a matriarchy he had one wife to work twelve hours a day in New York City, supporting the family, and another one both Margaret Sanger s niece, and a former student to raise the four children the two women managed to produce with him in the 1930s when she was not writing puff pieces about him for Family Circle.In background, he was a psychologist, and invent...

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04 August 2017

Jill Lepore