The Secret History of Wonder Woman

The Secret History of the Greatest Superhero of All Time "With a hundred times the skill and strength of our finest male athletes and strongest fighters, she appears out of nowhere to avenge injustices or right wrongs! Beautiful as Aphrodite; cunning as Athena; endowed with the speed of Mercury and the strength of Hercules—we know her as Wonder Woman. But who can tell us who she is or where she came from?" Introduced thus, the heroine appeared in All Star Comics No. 8, now DC Comics, in 1941, in the United States. Created by William Moulton Marston, Wonder Woman is the most famous superhero of all time. But what few people know is that her origins date back to the history of feminism in the United States. In this book, Harvard historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore retraces the character's trajectory, showing how the suffrage and feminist movements influenced the writing of her stories. In a fantastic research, the reader will have access to the origin of one of the most important superheroines in Western culture, a surprising family plot, crucial facts for 21st century feminism and Wonder Woman as you've never seen her before!