Bad Girls: Sirens, Jezebels, Murderesses, and Other Female Villains
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781299263062 (1299263062)
Publish date: January 1st 2013
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
Pages no: 174
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Teen,
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Juvenile,
Middle Grade,
Feminism,
Crime,
True Crime,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels
From Jezebel to Catherine the Great, from Cleopatra to Mae West, from Mata Hari to Bonnie Parker, strong women have been a problem for historians, storytellers, and readers. Strong females smack of the unfeminine. They have been called wicked, wanton, and willful. Sometimes that is a just designatio...
I really hope there aren't hoards of children somewhere checking this book out of the library in hopes to use it as a reference source. Wait, do kids still check out books from the library to do research? Anyway, if they do, they need to avoid this one. Basically, all the authors did in this book wa...
An entertaining and interesting collection of brief profiles of female rogues and criminals from history. Not a fan of the self-indulgent author interludes between the profiles or seeing citations for Wikipedia articles in the bibliography section.
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