The Secret History of Wonder Woman

This book is enthralling and reveals so many influential aspects surrounding woman's suffrage, birth control, women's equality, etc. that went into the creation of Wonder Woman. Women going from WW2-era Rosie the Riveter to trapped in the feminine sphere of hearth, home, and babies again was frustrating to read but necessary to understand for the 1970s women's lib movement.

This book is a captivating odyssey into the origin story of Wonder Woman from the complicated professor of psychology (and creator of the lie detector test), who was supportive of a women's lib in the 1920s through 1940s during the Hollywood Hays Code era (even a woman president depicted in Wonder Woman comics), and inclusive of the women that inspired her: Maraget Sanger (suffuragist badass), Olive Byrne (literary wit), and Elizabeth Holloway (lauded academic).

I can't say enough good things about this book! And I can't wait to read Jill Lepore's other works.