Bad Girls - Yolen Jane
Bad Girls - Yolen Jane From Jezebel to Catherine the Great, from Cleopatra to Mae West, from Mata Hari to Bonnie Parker, strong women have been a problem for historians, storytellers, and readers.…
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Bad Girls - Yolen Jane
From Jezebel to Catherine the Great, from Cleopatra to Mae West, from Mata Hari to Bonnie Parker, strong women have been a problem for historians, storytellers, and readers. They have been called wicked, wanton, and willful. Strong females smack of the unfeminine.
"Well-behaved women seldom make history," is the frequently quoted statement by historian and feminist Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. Sometimes that is a just designation, but just as often it is not. But what makes these misbehaving women "bad"?
Are we idolizing the wicked or salvaging the strong?In BAD GIRLS, readers meet twenty-six of history's most notorious women, each with a rotten reputation. But authors Jane Yolen and Heidi Stemple remind us that there are two sides to every story. Was Delilah a harlot or hero?
Was Catherine the Great a great ruler, or just plain ruthless? At the end of each chapter, Yolen and Stemple
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