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3.99 AVERAGE
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Beautiful watercolor illustrations! Worth the read, even just to enjoy the images.
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If you will read none of my other reviews, I beg you to read the entirety of this one. Read, comment, share, like, whatever. Just see this and take a moment to think about it. Thank you.
This book, while important in our world today, still leaves a lot to be desired. "Throughout History" should mean featuring women from all parts of the world and all walks of life, yet the overwhelming majority of the women featured here were white. European and American women dominated the scene, and POC were only featured occasionally and even then, decidedly not from all places and times available for the choosing. There was also a lack of women in LGBT history. Christine Jorgensen is the only LGBT woman featured in this book and I am really very disappointed. How about Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, Laverne Cox, Frida Kahlo... I could go on. Even Ellen DeGeneres was missing from this book, which featured women like Oprah Winfrey and Tina Fey!
A personal complaint: I am getting really tired of the lack of Indian women, and just Indian people in general, in the media I consume. Especially in this book, which outwardly seems to provide a diverse acknowledgement of women's contributions to history, there are no Indian women. Where are the powerful girls like Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Savitribai Phule, Indira Gandhi, Captain Prem Mathur, Rani Lakshmibhai, Aruna Roy?????? Why aren't their stories being told and their victories acknowledged?
This book, while important in our world today, still leaves a lot to be desired. "Throughout History" should mean featuring women from all parts of the world and all walks of life, yet the overwhelming majority of the women featured here were white. European and American women dominated the scene, and POC were only featured occasionally and even then, decidedly not from all places and times available for the choosing. There was also a lack of women in LGBT history. Christine Jorgensen is the only LGBT woman featured in this book and I am really very disappointed. How about Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, Laverne Cox, Frida Kahlo... I could go on. Even Ellen DeGeneres was missing from this book, which featured women like Oprah Winfrey and Tina Fey!
A personal complaint: I am getting really tired of the lack of Indian women, and just Indian people in general, in the media I consume. Especially in this book, which outwardly seems to provide a diverse acknowledgement of women's contributions to history, there are no Indian women. Where are the powerful girls like Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Savitribai Phule, Indira Gandhi, Captain Prem Mathur, Rani Lakshmibhai, Aruna Roy?????? Why aren't their stories being told and their victories acknowledged?
If I'm being honest this book felt like it was written through a very eurocentric lens. There were not nearly as enough Women of Color. The essays left a lot to be desired as many of the women's biographies assumed the reader knew about them previously (spoiler: not all of us are educated in america, nor do we have the same access to history). I was particularly disappointed when I went through the book's bibliography, as I felt it wasn't as diverse as it could have been. It had a lot of works written by men, and by people outside of the cultures they were writing about. Seems to me like a skewed lens from which to write about history, and an unconscious amplification of voices who don't really need it.
The illustrations were nice and I'm glad I got to read about some women, but overall I was expecting more.
The illustrations were nice and I'm glad I got to read about some women, but overall I was expecting more.
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hopeful
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Great book for getting a taste of several female legends. This is a jumping off point to find what interests you and then do your own research more in depth.
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A fun introduction to 100 women who left their mark on the world. Many already well known women (Cleopatra, Lady Godiva, Harriet Tubman to name a few) grace it's pages, and many not so well known.
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