![]() military intelligence officer - back to the United States - this is in 1941 - and comes to call herself Wonder Woman because she has superhuman powers that only Amazons have. So she stitches for Wonder Woman this star-spangled costume, and Wonder Woman flies in her invisible jet with her man captive Steve Trevor - who's a U.S. And Wonder Woman's mother decides he needs to be brought back to where he came from because they can have no man on Paradise Island. And a plane crashes on their island carrying a man. They lived on Paradise Island and had eternal life. Wonder Woman is an Amazon from an island of women who left ancient Greece to escape the enslavement of men. JILL LEPORE: Well, yeah, thanks for having me. ![]() Let me just start with a really obvious question, for people who have never read Wonder Woman and just know her as more as a metaphor (laughter), just describe Wonder Woman the superhero character. Her latest book about the eccentric writer Joe Gould is called "Joe Gould's Teeth." Jill Lepore spoke to Terry in 2014. ![]() Lepore is a staff writer for The New Yorker and a professor of American history at Harvard. Jill Lepore was first intrigued by Wonder Woman's history when she found the Marston-Sanger connection while researching two seemingly unrelated subjects - a legal story involving the lie detector, which was invented by Marston, and a history of Planned Parenthood which focused on its founder, Margaret Sanger. Wonder Woman's costume was inspired by his intense interest in erotic pinup art. ![]() His vision for Wonder Woman reflected his interest in the women's suffrage movement and in Margaret Sanger, the birth control and women's rights activist who was also his mistress's aunt. He fathered children with each of them, and they all lived together. The creator of Wonder Woman, William Moulton Marston, led a secret life with his wife and his mistress. And she has a secret past that's revealed in the book, "The Secret History Of Wonder Woman" by our guest, Jill Lepore. ![]() Wonder Woman is the most popular female comic book hero of all time. The new film "Wonder Woman," directed by Patty Jenkins, earned over a hundred million dollars in its opening weekend, setting a new opening weekend box office record for films by a woman director. ![]()
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