Oddly, he also believed that submission and bondage were intrinsic to women’s happiness. “Women have twice the emotional development, the ability for love, than man has,” he announced. Among the many topics on which Marston expounded was women’s power. When he tried to market himself as a psychology consultant to the FBI, J. Marston, a master at self-promotion, had failed as a college professor colleagues scorned his publicity stunts. Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin, 2013), “was the product of the suffragist, feminist, and birth control movements of the 1900s and 1910s and became a source of the women’s liberation and feminist movements of the 1960s and 1970s.” Long-legged, wearing short shorts and knee-high red boots, Wonder Woman burst into comics in 1941, the creation of William Moulton Marston, a Harvard-educated psychologist. Wonder Woman, writes Lepore (History/Harvard Univ. The surprising origins of a 20th-century goddess.
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