Bad Girls Throughout History is a beautifully illustrated book with brief histories of a hundred women who paved the way for today’s modern woman. Shen begins with Lillith and ends with Malala Yousafzai sprinkling activists, actresses, scientists and spies throughout history as she goes. To be a bad girl is to break any socially accepted rule. For some women, it’s the way they dress. For other girls, it’s the act of going to school. At one point, it was fighting for the right to vote. The […]
From Ada Lovelace to Marie Curie to Joan Jett
I borrowed this book from Overdrive as a Women’s History Month recommendation by my local library. It’s probably aimed at a slightly younger audience than myself, but I enjoyed reading it and found the illustrations just adorable. The author spends 2-3 pages on each of 100 women throughout history — their triumphs and failures, and why we should remember them. I would say I had heard of about two-thirds of them, which was neat because it’s always pleasing to find out that there are so […]