Jill Lepore’s The Secret History of Wonder Woman makes grand promises to find the connection between first- and second-wave feminism in the figure of Wonder Woman, but it really seeks to tell the story of her creator, William Moulton Marston, his wife, and his two mistresses, and how they lived together in a relationship kept fairly secret.
As Gloria Steinem and Ms Magazine claimed, she was emblematic of a strong woman, in spite of her many flaws, and in spite of the kitschy presentation of Lynda Carter’s Amazon. I eventually had to share her with the boy across the street, and that is as suitable to the history of the times as it was to the history of Wonder Woman herself. Although my bracelets turned my wrists green if I wore them for too long, and my tiara got caught in my hair, she was the only suitable superhero for a girl who thought girls could be powerful without pretending to be boys. When the kids in my neighborhood played Justice League way back in the 1970s, I always claimed my right to be Wonder Woman.
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