11/16/14

52 Books in 52 Weeks: The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore

Robin McCormack's book challenge continues. (Reports are due every Sunday.)



Jill Lepore, The Secret History of Wonder Woman, Knopf, 432 pp, October 28, 2014, ISBN
978-0385354042.

Lepore, a Harvard professor, is also a staff writer for The New Yorker, where I've enjoyed her essays Much of Lepore's research, teaching, and writing "explores absences and asymmetries of evidence in the historical record."  This lively book tell of the creation of an Amazonian cartoon by a feminist polygamist and its connection to the various waves of the women's movement.