It was whilst conducting research for a paper on the history of the lie detector, which William Moulton Marston invented, that she was inspired to write about him. Speaking in an interview just after receiving an Hon DLitt (Honorary Doctor of Letters) from the University she spoke in depth about why she decided to write about the DC comic character’s creator William Moulton Marston, what she discovered about his eccentric domestic arrangement and how he used combined images from the female struggle for independence and pornography to invent Wonder Woman.
Professor Lepore’s book The Secret History of Wonder Woman was a New York Times bestseller and winner of the 2015 American History Book Prize. Author and recent recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Warwick, Jill Lepore, has been discussing how feminism and pornography both played a part in the creation of the DC comic character Wonder Woman.
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