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History vs Women: The Defiant Lives that They Don't Want You to Know by Anita Sarkeesian

sar_p's review

5.0

This is a short introduction to historical women I had never heard of and I'm sure many others have not either. I especially appreciate that Sarkeesian and Adams focused heavily on non-Western women, because even as feminist scholars unearth the works of women long forgotten, many inevitably focus on Western women. That can be because of resources available or the scholars' own limitations as they do their research (funding, travel, etc.) Sarkeesian and Adams don't pretend to be academic scholars who are writing about forgotten women; they merely provide an easily accessible resource that can be used as a jumping point for others to look into and learn more about whoever they want to. It was sometimes frustrating to have so little information about the women discussed, but that is not the fault of the authors that records were never kept on women.