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Köp båda 2 för 400 krAll superheroes have strange myths of origin, but the politically and erotically charged back-story of Wonder Woman outstrips any comic book. Jill Lepore unmasks the comic-strip heroine as the strange daughter of early 20th-century womens suffrage and the bondage-fixated imagination of William Moulton Marston, a hucksterish psychologist who invented the lie-detector test and lived in a covert threesome with his wife and girlfriend A startling and intelligent double biography. -- James McConnachie * Sunday Times * The book I read most eagerly and discussed most avidly in 2014 was The Secret History of Wonder Woman ... Lepore is among the most productive, intellectually invigorating and surprising cultural critics in the US -- Elaine Showalter * Times Literary Supplement 'Books of 2014' * In pursuit of Wonder Woman, Jill Lepore has tackled archives, interviewed contemporaries and dug through court transcripts, college records, the literature of the early 20th-century suffragism and the annals of Wonder Woman and her rivals. The result is a tour de force. -- Helen DeWitt * Literary Review * 'Jill Lepores obsessively researched book on Wonder Woman, the four-color embodiment of the womens rights movement, reveals that the life of the characters creator, Dr. William Marston inventor of the lie detector, charming crank, ardent feminist and secret polygamist was waaay more colorful than any comic book superhero. Suffering Sappho!' -- Art Spiegelman, author of Maus Hugely entertaining Lepore teases out [connections] between Wonder Woman, the early-20th-century womens movement, and Marstons fascinating life and odd psyche, in which the liberation of women somehow got all mixed up with bondage and spanking. * The Atlantic * 'An absolutely unputdownable book. The life history of polymath charlatan and/or genius (I couldnt ever decide) William Moulton Marston, who worked his way through law, movie scenarios, lie detection, mnages a trois, free love, BDSM and polygamy before creating the first feminist super-person had me saying "wow" practically every other page. And thats not even mentioning the tough-as-nails women he exalted, lifted from and, uh, shared who make up the molten core of this newly-revealed story. Rocketing from the suffragism of the 1910s to the ERA of the 1970s on a wave of home-spun pop culture righteousness, this storys head-spinning weirdness ultimately makes you question your own accomplishments, aims, and almost like a great modern novel your real motives.' -- Chris Ware, author of Building Stories and Jimmy Corrigan All credit to Jill Lepore for simultaneously rescuing Wonder Woman from indifference, establishing her as an expression of first-wave feminism and introducing her creator, who must be one of the more repellent individuals ever to call himself a feminist Terrific reading. -- Catherine Bennett * The Observer * 'I love writers (and, indeed superheroines) who balance muscularity with intellect, surface charisma with depth, passion with politics. Lepore's achievements are even more likely to pass into greatness and myth than Wonder Woman's, so when the two of them meet, as they do here in the pages of a book, it's a thrilling adventure.' -- Bidisha Seamlessly combining rigorous scholarship and riveting readability, this richly rewarding book illuminates the histories of a problematic comics icon. A must-read. -- Alex Summersby * SFX Magazine * More than a treat for comic fans, Lepores superb book is for anyone interested in the social history of America. -- Martin Gray * Scotland on Sunday * 'What Lepore does so well is to show how Wonder Womans career mirrored the hopes, progress, and eventual disappointments of the American womens movement in the 20th century Theres a new Wonder Woman movie coming in 2017. If Lepores
Jill Lepore is a professor of American history at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her books include Book of Ages, a finalist for the National Book Award; New York Burning, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; The Name of War, winner of the Bancroft Prize; and The Mansion of Happiness, which was short-listed for the 2013 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.