Tattooed with name of her “owner”, Paula also has a pattern of cigarette burns on her arm – self-inflicted marking by sex slaves so that “if we’re found dead someplace, everyone will know we were stolen”.Ĭlement’s first-person telling of the story through her spirited narrator, named after the late Princess of Wales, in spare prose delivers emotional immediacy and demands engagement. She returns a year after her abduction, dead-eyed and having regressed to infancy. 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.Except for Ladydi’s friend, Paula, who is “more beautiful than Jennifer Lopez”. The Secret History of Wonder Woman is a tour de force of intellectual and cultural history. Marston, internationally known as an expert on truth-he invented the lie detector test-lived a life of secrets, only to spill them on the pages of Wonder Woman. In the 1930s, Marston and Byrne wrote a regular column for Family Circle celebrating conventional family life, even as they themselves pursued lives of extraordinary nonconformity. The Marston family story is a tale of drama, intrigue, and irony. In the 1920s, Marston and his wife, Sadie Elizabeth Holloway, brought into their home Olive Byrne, the niece of Margaret Sanger, one of the most influential feminists of the twentieth century. Beginning in his undergraduate years at Harvard, Marston was influenced by early suffragists and feminists, starting with Emmeline Pankhurst, who was banned from speaking on campus in 1911, when Marston was a freshman. Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has uncovered an astonishing trove of documents, including the never-before-seen private papers of William Moulton Marston, Wonder Woman’s creator. Unlike every other superhero, she has also has a secret history. Like every other superhero, Wonder Woman has a secret identity. Aside from Superman and Batman, no superhero has lasted as long or commanded so vast and wildly passionate a following. Wonder Woman, created in 1941, is the most popular female superhero of all time. A riveting work of historical detection revealing that the origin of one of the world’s most iconic superheroes hides within it a fascinating family story-and a crucial history of twentieth-century feminism
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