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4.53 AVERAGE
4.53 AVERAGE
A fascinating read. Loved reading about all these amazing women.
A nice taster to guide future selections for autobiographical reads.
Fantastic collection of short biographies! Love the graphic novel format that introduced me to so many women I’ve never heard of!
Out of all of the girl power books that have been coming out, this has been my favorite by far. I love the eclectic mix of people (past and present), the wry humor, the clever comic strip format and the beautiful illustrations. I really hope she makes more.
Great art, great stories and information about amazing women who deserve to have their stories told dar and wide!
This book belongs on every woman's shelf, scratch that, every person's shelf. It is such a delightful, refreshing compendium of vignettes about women throughout history, mostly unheard of, unsung, and, perhaps unknowingly, feminist heroes. In covering the few well-known women Bagieu chose to include, she made sure to focus on an element of their lives that is lesser known, so each entry feels entirely fresh regardless of the subject. I cannot rave enough about Penelope's illustrative style, and each section is completed with a gorgeous two-page spread. Love love love. Recommend to everyone (though Penelope said she wouldn't give it to a child under the age of 13). :)
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Written as a graphic novel, but still very edgy. Great for teens looking to learn more about some lesser known female activists. I enjoyed reading it as an adult. The art was also very cute but still powerful.
This is an engaging book. A collection of 29 comic strip stories of rebel women throughout the ages, some you will have heard of, some you almost certainly won't have. The stories are well told in both words and great illustrations, with a huge dose of humour. I love that some of the rebel women are contemporary too.
So why not 5 stars? Well I don’t think the selection is good enough. It hugely favours Africa, West Europe and the US. If this book is supposed to offer role models for our young women where’s the representation from Asia, Russia and Eastern Europe. It’s not that the role models don’t exist - some are listed in the Bagieu's own list of “30 more rebel ladies who rocked the world” at the end of the book and I can think of others. They’re just not here. And there's space for them in the book - 13 of the 29 stories included are of American women! So I think this is more about women who mostly rocked the western world (with a few other's added in).
That's not to say that the book isn’t fun and a great read. It is. My main criticism is that isn’t really representative of “the world”. Had it been more so it would have been a 5* book for me.
So why not 5 stars? Well I don’t think the selection is good enough. It hugely favours Africa, West Europe and the US. If this book is supposed to offer role models for our young women where’s the representation from Asia, Russia and Eastern Europe. It’s not that the role models don’t exist - some are listed in the Bagieu's own list of “30 more rebel ladies who rocked the world” at the end of the book and I can think of others. They’re just not here. And there's space for them in the book - 13 of the 29 stories included are of American women! So I think this is more about women who mostly rocked the western world (with a few other's added in).
That's not to say that the book isn’t fun and a great read. It is. My main criticism is that isn’t really representative of “the world”. Had it been more so it would have been a 5* book for me.