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A review by thereadingsparrow
Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World by Rosalind Miles
dark
funny
informative
inspiring
tense
medium-paced
3.5
I still don't know who cooked the last supper...
Jokes aside: Some very interesting facts, but not really up-to-date with the current research or language (understandably, but just to point out that there are better works to be consulted instead), immerses itself too much in the "mystical/divine womanhood" trope in my opinion and is not as nuanced as I would have liked, plus a bit hypocritical (e.g.: men do this thing and it's bad, women do the same thing and it's okay).
Jokes aside: Some very interesting facts, but not really up-to-date with the current research or language (understandably, but just to point out that there are better works to be consulted instead), immerses itself too much in the "mystical/divine womanhood" trope in my opinion and is not as nuanced as I would have liked, plus a bit hypocritical (e.g.: men do this thing and it's bad, women do the same thing and it's okay).