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It's to the best of our knowledge from PRI. Today, Wonder Women. Like most of us, I grew up with

mostly male superheroes. Batman, Superman, Spider-Man. Maybe that's why I remember so

clearly the first time Bat Girl showed up. I must have been

eight or nine, and honestly, it had not occurred to me until then that a girl could fight crime

and save the world and do it riding a really cool black motorcycle. I wanted to be Bat Girl.

And that, that is why Superwomen matter, because they're icons of female power and agency,

and they can shape little girls and even grown women's dreams and fantasies.

And now, after all those years of being sidelined as girlfriends, sluts, or bitches, they're taking center stage.

For example, Wonder Woman is back. D.C. Comics and Warner Brothers have at least two films planned.

And yes, okay, she's a warrior princess in a miniskirt, strapless top, and knee-high boots.

She is still a feminist icon. In fact, historian Jill Lepore

recently discovered that Wonder Woman and her creator were intimately tied to the women's

movement in the early 20th century. She told Steve Paulson how she uncovered their secret history.

So I'd been asked by the New Yorker to write a piece about Planned Parenthood and its history. And Planned Parenthood was founded in 1916 in Brooklyn by Margaret Sanger, a nurse,

and her sister Ethel Byrne, who was also a nurse who opened the first birth control clinic in the United

States. So I set out researching the history of Planned Parenthood, and I went to read Margaret

Sanger's papers, which are at Smith College. I was reading through those papers.

And meanwhile, I was working on a different project for a talk I was giving at the law school on the history of evidence.

I was really interested in the history of the lie detector.

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