Sheroes: Bold, Brash, and Absolutely Unabashed Superwomen from Susan B. Anthony to Xena [Paperback]

Varla Ventura (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1998

Profiling 200 real and fictional women who dared, women who rock, and women who rule, this book features the low-down on Dana Scully, Rosa Parks, Foxy Brown, Wonder Woman, Emma Peel, Thelma and Louise, Mary Richards, and Eleanor Roosevelt, among others. 40 photos.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Sheroes is a dizzy, amusing dip into the lives of 200 women of substance from Harriet Tubman (the original American freedom rider), comic strip character Wonder Woman, and Star Trek's Lieutenant Uhura to British adventurer Alexandra David-Neel (My Journey to Lhasa), Olympic champion speed racer Bonnie Blair, and African ecowarrior Wangari Maathai. Varla Ventura mainly celebrates easily recognized women, but deserves credit for ferreting out many early sheores, such as the five Biblical sisters who persuaded Moses that daughters deserved to inherit (albeit only when no sons are available), and little known luminaries like pro-hockey goalie Manon Rheume and Puerto Rico's freedom fighter Maria de la Mercedes Barbudo. Sheroes happily tweaks the historical record, flinging around words like "bodacious" and "braniac" such as to make scholars and feminists blanch, but it assembles a colorful listing of real and imaginary women as role models to which to aspire. --Francesca Coltrera

Product Details

• Paperback: 356 pages
• Publisher: Conari Pr (May 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1573241288
• ISBN-13: 978-1573241281
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 6.9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,783,467 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Varla Ventura, author of Sheroes, The Book of the Bizarre, and Wild Women Talk About Love is a scholar, poet, provocateur and lover of all things odd, unusual, and truly freaky. Her favorite holiday is Halloween, and loves to talk about love. She lives in San Francisco, CA.

Customer Reviews

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars garbage, July 31, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Sheroes: Bold, Brash, and Absolutely Unabashed Superwomen from Susan B. Anthony to Xena (Paperback)

This book is filled with inaccurate information, typos, and incorrect grammar. Not to be used as a reference. I could have written this book myself. The parts I didn't know, I could have simply made up, which is what the author appears to have done. Book also contains a small paragraph on Wonder Woman who is historically the most famous and continuously published superheroine of all time. Do your research. Note to author: double check your facts or don't even bother.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I wish I had read the other review first!, January 9, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Sheroes: Bold, Brash, and Absolutely Unabashed Superwomen from Susan B. Anthony to Xena (Paperback)

I totally agree... this book is full of factual errors, including stating that Murphy Brown singlehandedly brought down Dan Quayle. The editor of this book should bone up on grammer, fact-checking, etc. I found it very distressing that many women, from Queen Isabella to Belle Starr were treated with a giddy adulation that did not include the whole woman. I am very much a feminist and have enjoyed the other books from Conari Press and thought all of their products would be as high quality.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great summary of great women, September 3, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Sheroes: Bold, Brash, and Absolutely Unabashed Superwomen from Susan B. Anthony to Xena (Paperback)

This book is an inspiration for any woman that thinks she can't do it. Every woman in this book proves that every woman can do whatever she wants - and do it well.