6/22/2023 0 Comments No Girls Allowed by Susan HughesOf these seven works, one is a picture-book translation of a folk poem, one an excerpt from a collection of tales about female pirates, and two are novels. There is a list of "further reading" in the back of the book, offering one title per subject. The fictionalized accounts contain a lot of speculation, most of which could probably have been clarified with a little research-and if there really are no good accounts of a person, then maybe a story based entirely on hearsay isn't the best choice for a collective biography. From legendary figures like Hatshepsut and Mu Lan to unknowns like Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, these are women who refused to let a little thing like their gender stand in the way of their goals.Īt about 10 pages per subject, each story is at best a cursory glance of what happened-at times so cursory I found myself flipping back, sure I'd missed a page because there was no logical flow to the story. This is a really great idea-stories about women who disguised themselves as men to get what they really wanted.
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