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3.74 AVERAGE
3.74 AVERAGE
I really enjoyed this book. It was different than other books I've read about comic book characters and it was one which really helped with explaining Wonder Woman and why she is who she is and the strong influence of women's rights. I think this would make a great book for those teaching women studies classes in college because it does a great deal of covering that.
A nice combination of synthesis of feminist history with the family history one particularly interesting group of people. Lost opportunity to discuss the problematic relationship between race and first wave feminism (and therefore, the use of chains and bondage in Wonder Woman), however.
Lepore offers a fascinating look into the history of the women's rights movement and Wonder Woman, along with brilliant insights abut the complex individuals who inspired her. This was one of the most engaging nonfiction books I have ever read.
Because the world didn't know it, but it needed a combined history of feminism, comics, the lie detector, Planned Parenthood, and unconventional marriages. So good.
informative
medium-paced
Solid, though I think I’d have liked this more if I’d not already read a book on Wonder Woman or not seen that movie with Rebecca Hall and Luke Evan. Still, informative enough and well-paced if a bit dry.
Lepore delivers a great narrative: part biography, part sociology, part psychology, all entertaining history of connections between early feminism in America and the people that created and were the model for the original Wonder Woman.
challenging
informative
slow-paced
A fabulous exploration of the rise of feminism in the United States told through the lens of one of America's most macho endeavors: the super hero comic book.
"It's because the people interested in the history of comic books are not the same as the people interested in the history of the polygraph. (And very few people in either group are also interested in the history of feminism)"
I wish that sentence of Lepore's was wrong because this is a fascinating book. I'm thankful that she somehow came up with the interest and pursued what looks to be a daunting project to it's end.
An amazing book with bits of suffrage-ism, the birth control movement, lie detectors, the history of comic books, more family secrets than you can count, and a colorful charlatan at the heart of it -- all held together by Wonder Woman who touches all of it in one way or another.
A reminder how messy, personal, and interconnected history is - not the cold, hard facts most of us think of history as. Lepore may not have the humor of Vowell, but this was a fun read.
I wish that sentence of Lepore's was wrong because this is a fascinating book. I'm thankful that she somehow came up with the interest and pursued what looks to be a daunting project to it's end.
An amazing book with bits of suffrage-ism, the birth control movement, lie detectors, the history of comic books, more family secrets than you can count, and a colorful charlatan at the heart of it -- all held together by Wonder Woman who touches all of it in one way or another.
A reminder how messy, personal, and interconnected history is - not the cold, hard facts most of us think of history as. Lepore may not have the humor of Vowell, but this was a fun read.
An academic history of Wonder Woman and how she ties into the feminist movement of the early 20th century. It was a little more rigorously academic than I was expecting -- a ton of footnotes that I had to obsessively check even though 95% of them were just straight citations, because 5% of them WEREN'T and gave actual additional information, and occasionally snark -- but overall a very interesting read. WW's creator was a very unusual gentleman, especially for the time. Also, Margaret Sanger is much more involved than you'd think.