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zephyrsilver 's review for:
The Secret History of Wonder Woman
by Jill Lepore
I can’t tell if the author wanted to write about the creation of Wonder Woman and only came up with about 50 pages, and thus needed to fill this book with other information OR she wanted to write about early 20th century feminism and psychology and just decided to tie it together with Wonder Woman since her creator was heavily interested in both.
What this all basically means is that Wonder Woman’s creation does not happen until nearly 200 pages in. Okay fine. I was prepared to learn about her creator and his two wives as that sounds fascinating to me. Which we did learn about them. And feminism. And psychology. And the lie detector test. And a couple people put on trial with the lie detector test. And some other people who’s relevance I’m still not certain about. And then some. Not to mention by the time we get to Wonder Woman, it’s mostly just transcripts of things that happened in her comics.
Basically, not about Wonder Woman nearly as much as it should be and not even about the man who wrote her and the women who inspired her as much as it should be. I never got the answer on whether Marston’s wives actually even liked each other? I mean it seemed like they did and they both consented to share a husband. I was really hoping to learn more about the two of them and their relationship with each other but I guess there’s only so much we can learn now.
The point I’m getting to is that this book takes a long time to get to the point and then is a bit of a let down. If it had been relabeled to be more about feminism I would have picked it up for that but I went in expecting different things from this rambling book.
What this all basically means is that Wonder Woman’s creation does not happen until nearly 200 pages in. Okay fine. I was prepared to learn about her creator and his two wives as that sounds fascinating to me. Which we did learn about them. And feminism. And psychology. And the lie detector test. And a couple people put on trial with the lie detector test. And some other people who’s relevance I’m still not certain about. And then some. Not to mention by the time we get to Wonder Woman, it’s mostly just transcripts of things that happened in her comics.
Basically, not about Wonder Woman nearly as much as it should be and not even about the man who wrote her and the women who inspired her as much as it should be. I never got the answer on whether Marston’s wives actually even liked each other? I mean it seemed like they did and they both consented to share a husband. I was really hoping to learn more about the two of them and their relationship with each other but I guess there’s only so much we can learn now.
The point I’m getting to is that this book takes a long time to get to the point and then is a bit of a let down. If it had been relabeled to be more about feminism I would have picked it up for that but I went in expecting different things from this rambling book.