Reviews

The Women Who Made Me a Feminist by Matt Killeen

abiofpellinor's review

4.0

Matt Killeen is an author I love from his Orphan Monster Spy WWII YA series, so when I saw that he had a small (like 45 pages small), free, eBook I knew that I needed to pick it up! It's a collection of short essays about the strong, powerful women portrayed in media and how it shaped his childhood to end up in him becoming a feminist.

I will be honest and say that I hadn't heard of all of these women. I don't watch many movies, so that was part of it, but also just from exposure to different media. I did, however, really enjoy learning about them and I can see how this would be a great book for teenagers to delve into and find more women to admire.

This is a short review for a short book, but overall I believe you should pick this up. It's free and quick to read so there's no loss to you if you don't like it, and it mentions some fantastic women who should be praised more often.

sophieisreadingagain's review

This is a collection of short 'essays' (blog posts) about a selection of women who have inspired the author throughout his life and taught him how great women can be. Some are real, some are fictional. It was interesting reading about them, some were unknown to me. The essays are short, a few pages at most, and mostly just summarise the woman and the key idea she taught the author. It's simple and pretty well written. It was a nice enough read, something to do and I did like learning about the women and to hear such an openly respectful tone about them but I wouldnt say it's going on my favourites list or anything. Still, it was a pretty interesting read.

saccalai's review

4.0

I loved reading about so many wonderful, often quite unknown women. Such an inspirational book.