Tag: The Secret History of Wonder Woman

• Women Writers Reading Challenge #51: The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore

  October 26, 2015

  Reading Challenge

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  So the early Wonder Woman? Yeah, she was kind of a badass. And she is descended from some of the most influential suffragettes and women’s rights leaders of the early twentieth century, owing debts to Margaret Sanger and Emmeline Pankhurst. Her creator also invented the lie detector (though the patented invention–the polygraph–would be created by…