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Wonder Woman is a good start to further research into some amazing (and unsurprisingly often undervalued) women of history. I commend the Author on her choices of featured stories, I often found myself highlighting names in this book so that I could learn more in my own time. I also think it was a smart move to include a list of resources for young readers who may be inspired to join a related work field to the heroines of the novel - STEM, medicine and espionage. The author has compiled a great selection of interesting stories, however, the books writing style leaves something to be desired.
The language is very colloquial and subtracted from the books overall impact; it uses slang and expressions which are already very telling of the time it was written - a mere 6 years ago. Another particular issue I had with this book was the author constantly referred to every woman as geeks or nerds - "Not everyone is a science genius or a math whiz—those kinds of smarts are absolutely not prerequisites to joining the geeky gal party. Some brilliant ladies in history have made their mark by doing things no one had ever done before, going places no geek had ever gone, gathering materials and plants and measurements and stories no nerd had ever dared to explore.". I think this is a disservice to some of the powerful women in this book and trivialises the unique circumstances and motivations of each.
The language is very colloquial and subtracted from the books overall impact; it uses slang and expressions which are already very telling of the time it was written - a mere 6 years ago. Another particular issue I had with this book was the author constantly referred to every woman as geeks or nerds - "Not everyone is a science genius or a math whiz—those kinds of smarts are absolutely not prerequisites to joining the geeky gal party. Some brilliant ladies in history have made their mark by doing things no one had ever done before, going places no geek had ever gone, gathering materials and plants and measurements and stories no nerd had ever dared to explore.". I think this is a disservice to some of the powerful women in this book and trivialises the unique circumstances and motivations of each.