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What a wonderful and inspiring book full of badass ladies! I highly recommend this to anyone feeling discouraged about the state of women's rights.
This is a beautifully illustrated book on 100 of the most badass women who changed the world. I enjoy reading books about strong women but what I particularly liked about this one is that the text about each woman was short and concise, a summary of their contribution to the world. There were definitely a number of fantastic women I’d never heard of so will be researching further. I would definitely recommend this book - it’s a great coffee table book or an ideal gift, particularly for young girls to hear about awesome female role models.
I LOVE this book! This will be one I buy for my personal library. I plan to read this to grandchildren as they get older. This book features one hundred women who have "left a permanent mark on human history" by being brave, strong, ingenious, and determined. A must read!
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Only missing Taylor Swift and it would be perfect
There are some really “interesting” choices of bad girls. I think I would have enjoyed maybe an “inspiring” women book. I did really enjoy some of these stories, even if they weren’t “bad” girls.
The portraits are colorful and lovely, and I hadn't heard of all of the women included, but there's still too much stereotyping and whitewashing. Cleopatra wasn't powerful because she looked like Liz Taylor and put out freely, and Bonnie Parker should not be included at all. Especially not with a bio describing her as a love-struck child that "some reports say never fired a shot". "Some reports" can be found to say just about anything, but the most accurate ones say she killed at least two people, one of them a cop, with her own gun because that's what her gang did.
It's probably a good intro for kids 12 and under, but follow up with them and recommend further reading as necessary.
It's probably a good intro for kids 12 and under, but follow up with them and recommend further reading as necessary.
Lots of fabulous women in here, but super short. Good for previewing biographies I'd like to read?
A friend gave me this book as a present, and what a fun book! Shen defines "bad girl" up front as not necessarily criminals but women who go against the prevailing norms for gender.
I found a couple phrases here and there that were clunky, and if I nit-picked her choices of 100 women, I would have liked to see more LGBT representation. But overall, nice job featuring some obvious choices (Cleopatra, Betty Friedan) along with some more obscure women that I feel the need to learn more about, like pirate queens Grace O'Malley and Ching Shih, Italian revolutionary Anita Garibaldi, or the world's first female film director, Alice Guy-Blache. Shen also represented women from a variety of ethnic and racial backgrounds, and I appreciated that very much. The author's own illustrations make up half the book, and they are mostly pretty great. I feel like her portraits of African American women are especially well done.
I found a couple phrases here and there that were clunky, and if I nit-picked her choices of 100 women, I would have liked to see more LGBT representation. But overall, nice job featuring some obvious choices (Cleopatra, Betty Friedan) along with some more obscure women that I feel the need to learn more about, like pirate queens Grace O'Malley and Ching Shih, Italian revolutionary Anita Garibaldi, or the world's first female film director, Alice Guy-Blache. Shen also represented women from a variety of ethnic and racial backgrounds, and I appreciated that very much. The author's own illustrations make up half the book, and they are mostly pretty great. I feel like her portraits of African American women are especially well done.
It's a pretty book and you get a brief overview about some interesting women from history to modern times — emphasis on brief. Each woman is given between a half page to a full page summary of their story. Since it's a very superficial description, a lot of serious and complex issues are flippantly glossed over or summarized. The women mentioned come from fairly diverse backgrounds.
It's a good quick read. But if you want more in-depth coverage on any of these or other "bad girls" throughout history, you'll need to find another source.
It's a good quick read. But if you want more in-depth coverage on any of these or other "bad girls" throughout history, you'll need to find another source.