marianneereads 's review for:

Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World by Ann Shen

2.0

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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.