Sheroes: Bold, Brash, and Absolutely Unabashed Superwomen - Softcover

Ventura, Varla

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9781573241281: Sheroes: Bold, Brash, and Absolutely Unabashed Superwomen

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ISBN 10: 1573241288 ISBN 13: 9781573241281

Publisher: Conari Press, 1998

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Profiles two hundred real and fictional women who made their feminist mark in the last century through courage, strength, and individuality, and includes Emma Peel, Rosa Parks, Tina Turner, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Miss Marple, among others. Original. 25,000 first printing. Tour. IP.

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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

About the Author:

Varla Ventura, author of Sheroes, Beyond Bizarre, and The Book of the Bizarre, and is a lover of all things odd and unusual and truly freaky. Her favorite holiday is Halloween, which she celebrates almost every day. She lives in the attic of an old Victorian in San Francisco.

Vicki Leon is the author of Uppity Women of the Renaissance, Uppity Women of Medieval Times Uppity, Uppity Women of the New World, and Women of Ancient Times. The author of seven wildlife books, six travel guides, and two children's books, Leon, who lives in Oregon, also delights in giving workshops and speeches on the unsung women in history.

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