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The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Secret History of Wonder Woman about?
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Within the origin of one of the world's most iconic superheroes hides a fascinating family story—and a crucial history of feminism in the twentieth-century.“Everything you might want in a page-turner...skeletons in the closet, a believe-it-or-not weirdness in its biographical details, and something else that secretly powers even the most “serious” feminist history—fun.” —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 of feminism a century later.Lepore, a Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer, has uncovered an astonishing trove of documents, including the never-before-seen private papers of Wonder Woman's creator, William Moulton Marston. The Marston family story is a tale of drama, intrigue, and irony. In the 1920s, Marston and his wife brought into their home Olive Byrne, the niece of Margaret Sanger, one of the most influential feminists of the twentieth century. Even
Who reads The Secret History of Wonder Woman?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jill Lepore
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780385354059
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Graphic Novel, Science
- Rating
- 3.71 / 5 (8,292 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14