Truly fun for all ages, this unique coloring book subversively and playfully examines the female gender stereotypes that pervade daily life. A diverse group of pictures reinforce positive gender roles throughout the book and show that girls are thinkers, creators, fighters, and healers. Some of the characters who show the new face of the feminine include Rapunzel, who now has power tools and Miss Muffet, who tells the spider off and considers a career as an arachnologist. Deconstructing the homogeneity of gender expression has never been so colorful.
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"Get this cool feminist coloring book even if you don't have a kid." —Jane Pratt, founding editor, Jane and Sassy magazines
"An ingeniously subversive coloring book." —Heather Findlay, editor in chief, Girlfriends magazine
"Some of the pictures and captions in this colouring book are funny. A woman riding a tractor: Who says girls don't like to play in the dirt? Two ballerinas dancing: No one wants to fight the patriarchy alone. Make friends." —Guardian
About the Author
Jacinta Bunnell is an artist and writer who promotes a gender-defiant new world. Julie Novak is the art director for New York House magazine, an actor, a writer, a musician, and an artist. They both live in New York's Hudson Valley.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A great book for its intended market,
By Cary "Cary" (NYC) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Girls Are Not Chicks Coloring Book (Reach and Teach) (Paperback)
This is a smart, thoughtful, and fun book for girls aged 4 -8. I bought it for my niece and she loved it. Hopefully girls of her generation will grow up without experiencing the misogyny of previous generations. A book like this will help to ensure that. For girls older than 8 I recommend Dolltopia by Abby Denson. It takes the concept to the next level, and it's just as smart, thoughtful, and fun!
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Ages 4-8? More like age 48.,
By Passionphd (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Girls Are Not Chicks Coloring Book (Reach and Teach) (Paperback)
The title and intent looked fun and creative, but what a dreary exercise in feminist consciousness raising is inside. Do the authors have any sense of what draws a child's eye or child's ear? Where is our wiccan Dr. Scarry? Our feminist Dr. Seuss?? Certainly not here.
Instead we get unappealing, small, non-coloring-friendly illustrations with such catchy child-appealing jingles like "'high heels and handbags cloning project' got you down?" (huh??) Not catchy enough? Try "Underneath all the fancy clothing, Sophia found an enthusiastic love her own body." Or that 4-year-old-crowd-pleaser, "when she stopped chasing the dangling carrot of conventional femininity she was finally able to savor being a woman." Now there isn't anything wrong with the intent here, but I challenge anyone to give me one example of a child that had FUN with this book. The plus side: the book is slightly more appealing than Girls Will Be Boys will be Girls... Pink boys and tough girls deserve better!!
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