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4.53 AVERAGE
4.53 AVERAGE
I picked this up because I want to get into graphic novels and I finished it in one day. It was so fun & informative!!! I love it very much.
Very enjoyable graphic novel (or comic book!) about the lives of maybe about 30 women who led or are leading extraordinary lives. Their life stories are told succinctly - and inevitably begin with "no one believed she could do anything because she was a woman" - but you really get a sense of their accomplishments. And it's not just women you would immediately assume would be in a book like this. Many are quite obscure (at least to me). Their stories were tremendously interesting and even with the women I knew something about (Josephine Baker, Temple Grandin, Peggy Guggenheim and Nellie Bly among them), I expanded my knowledge. A fun, illuminating read.
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This was really interesting to read, and I really enjoyed it. 'Brazen' is filled with so many different women that really deserve to be in the spot light for a little besides the women we hear so much nowadays, nothing against them, they are truly wonderful, but I think we lose sight of how many unnamed hero's there are of the world of both today and yesteryear. There were so many different situations in this book with so many different types of women, this book was more than informational, it was inspirational.
I loved this book! So inspiring to read about these magnificent women and their impact on the world. I highly recommend this book to any female who could use some inspiration to live the life she dreams of.
This was so fun! There were so many "rebel ladies" who I'd never heard of, and others I had but didn't know the full story for. The artwork was colorful and unique, and I loved the full-page spreads after each mini biography. The narration was laugh-out-loud funny in parts, heartbreaking in others, and I enjoyed every single second of reading this. I hope she does more!
I chose this as an experiment: Would reading a graphic novel instead of a 'normal' book help my students enjoy reading better? Results: Some loved it, some didn't. No one flat out hated it, but the biggest complaint was that the text was in all caps.
I love reading true stories that I’ve never heard before and I would never know about if I hadn’t randomly picked up this graphic novel. Some of my favorites included the Catholic Finnish lady who designed her gravestone to eternally touch her Protestant husband. The lady who took her passion for miniatures and became a pioneer in forensic science. The Greek woman who advocated for midwifery and female doctors during ancient times. So many wonderful, inspiring women! I love reading how they turned their passions into careers and changed the world. Beyond inspiring :)
Just delightful! A fun and edifying read, introducing me to a host of women and their accomplishments, many of whom I'd never heard of.
Bagieu's style is breezy and light in her drawings, but they can pack a wallop of humor and gravitas in their brevity.
It's most interesting when she, a few times, reminds us that what has been previously said of some of these women was from the male gaze and the male historians' and writer's viewpoint showing them in a negative light, and she manages to flip that narrative.
Special kudos given to the drawing on page 234 (of my hardback copy), in the chapter about Jesselyn Radack, the panel that depicts her talking to the department IT guy...she draws the IT guy as the character Maurice Moss from the British sitcom The IT Crowd. That got a loud chuckle from me.
Bagieu's style is breezy and light in her drawings, but they can pack a wallop of humor and gravitas in their brevity.
It's most interesting when she, a few times, reminds us that what has been previously said of some of these women was from the male gaze and the male historians' and writer's viewpoint showing them in a negative light, and she manages to flip that narrative.
Special kudos given to the drawing on page 234 (of my hardback copy), in the chapter about Jesselyn Radack, the panel that depicts her talking to the department IT guy...she draws the IT guy as the character Maurice Moss from the British sitcom The IT Crowd. That got a loud chuckle from me.
Loved the opportunity to read about women whose stories are often overlooked or forgotten! It was a quick read and I didn’t always love the illustrations but I did most of the time.