![]() ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. ![]() 'Is this a feminist project that's supposed to help girls decide to go to college and have careers, or is this just like soft porn?' "Ĭlose overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Secret History of Wonder Woman Author Jill Lepore "There are a lot of people who get very upset at what Marston was doing. "There's no simple story here," Lepore says. Her costume was inspired by Marston's interest in erotic pin-up art. She was a controversial figure in the 1940s because of her overt sexuality and her link to bondage. He was interested in the women's suffrage movement and in Margaret Sanger, the birth control and women's rights activist - who was also his mistress's aunt.Ī feminist icon, Wonder Woman was an Amazon who forced people to tell the truth with her magic lasso. ![]() Marston, who was a famous psychologist, made up Wonder Woman in 1941. 'Is this a feminist project that's supposed to help girls decide to go to college and have careers, or is this just like soft porn?'Īuthor Jill Lepore on early reactions to Wonder Woman There are a lot of people who get very upset at what Marston was doing. ![]()
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