Bad Girls: Sirens, Jezebels, Murderesses, and Other Female Villains
Meet twenty-six of history's most notorious women. Each bad girl has a rotten reputation, but there are two sides to every tale. Decide whether Tituba was really a conspiring witch or just a humble housemaid. Analyze the evidence stacked for and against Lizzie Borden. And what made the brazen...
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Meet twenty-six of history's most notorious women. Each bad girl has a rotten reputation, but there are two sides to every tale. Decide whether Tituba was really a conspiring witch or just a humble housemaid. Analyze the evidence stacked for and against Lizzie Borden. And what made the brazen Cleopatra so dishonorable . . . or honorable? Each chapter ends with comic panels featuring caricatures of the authors discussing the women, with Heidi arguing as the prosecution and Jane arguing for context.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781580891851 (1580891853)
Publish date: February 1st 2013
Publisher: Charlesbridge
Pages no: 176
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.