33 Things Every Girl Should Know About Women's History: From Suffragettes to Skirt Lengths to the E.R.A.

Customer Reviews:

Why only 33 things?

By JenniferJ - June 26, 2002

OK, I read this book, and I fall out of the line of happy, snappy reviews. But, here are some of my problems with the book. First of all, stop with the alternative layout already! It's distracting, annoying, and detracts from the important content. I guess it's got many font heads etc to appeal to teens, but frankly I think it misses its mark. Also, I thought the book could have given more to Phyllis Wheatley than one line in a poem! There are also a number of other important female thinkers left out of this book such as Adrianne Rich, but Blondie makes it into the book. I guess if you only are going to put in 33 items, somethings gotta go! So cut Blondie. Some of the poetry choices that are to
enhance the nonfiction text were disappointing, or weak. I think that the editor could have done a better job to flesh out
that part of the book, because I like the idea of using poems
with nonfiction. So, with that, I do not recommend you buy this scrap book version of... read more

Should be a must for all women to read!

By SPD "Dot" - March 23, 2002

I bought this book for my granddaughter but my daughter also
read it. They both agreed with me that it is very informative.
THis book sheds light on some less well known contributions to history by women. The list for other sources of information is really great and very helpful to encourage more research.
I know my granddaughter was eager to learn more.

Grrl Power!

By Christina Hayward - June 26, 2002

33 things Every Female Should Know About Women's History is a charming and insiteful book. It contains 33 chapters each on a different aspect of woman's history. I was pleased to find that there were things I never thought to associate with woman's history. For example, there is a chapter devoted to National Monuments and how few are dedicated to women. It gives the locations of a few and then suggests sending for a pamphlet published by the US Government on how you can suggest a National Monument.Other chapters in this book include subjects such as magazine publishing, fashion, health issues, sports, short stories, politics and even a helpful book review.The only problem I had with the book wasn't anything the authors could have helped. Because there is such limited information on women's history, the chapters seemed to repeat the same information over and over. I do give them credit for trying to present it all in a different light though. I am definately going to pass... read more