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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.