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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
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
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Inside This Book Citations: This book cites 100 books Explore: Citations | Concordance | Text Stats Key Phrases - CAPs: New York, United States, World War, African American, Big Mama (more) Browse Sample Pages: Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me! |
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Since the fall of Troy, Amazons have never gone out of style. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, World War, African American, Big Mama, Sojourner Truth, Clarice Starling, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Los Angeles, Mother Jones, Nobel Prize, Phoolan Devi, Rachel Carson, Supreme Court, Anita Hill, Harriet Tubman, Joni Mitchell, Margaret Sanger, Martin Luther King, Pam Grier, San Francisco, Wonder Woman, Anne Frank, Betty Friedan New!
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Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Since the fall of Troy, Amazons have never gone out of style. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, World War, African American, Big Mama, Sojourner Truth, Clarice Starling, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Los Angeles, Mother Jones, Nobel Prize, Phoolan Devi, Rachel Carson, Supreme Court, Anita Hill, Harriet Tubman, Joni Mitchell, Margaret Sanger, Martin Luther King, Pam Grier, San Francisco, Wonder Woman, Anne Frank, Betty Friedan New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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