A review by cupiscent
Girl Squads: 20 Female Friendships That Changed History by Sam Maggs

4.0

More of a light-hearted introductory survey with a solid message - girls do better when they lift each other up - than a thorough piece of academia, this book was a great time with a lot of interesting stories to uncover. I particularly enjoyed the pieces on the Korean divers, the trobairitz (predictably, given my love for GGK's A Song for Arbonne), Manon and the French revolution, and the original Blue Stockings (more a sparkling literary salon than the later pejorative use of the term suggests). But every single story was engaging and enlightening.