In this fully illustrated, deeply researched, and totally entertaining collection, Jason Porath offers 100 women too uncompromising, too untoward, or too uncomfortable to fit the modern princess mold. Rejected Princesses is here to provide an alternative to that. In place of complex, real-life heroines, we get sparkly, doe-eyed animated damsels who dominate children’s minds everywhere. This is just the list of women we know about. And even when we learn about a true legend – say, Harriet Tubman – we get half the story (and it’s usually not the half about her as a plantation-torching Union spy-master). Let’s face it: the list of historical women we learn about in school is lacking. I chimed in by saying they could hold off deciding for a few days, because it was coming home with me! Then again, pretty much any book that comes into the store screaming “female badassery” comes home with me before too long! Tales of History’s Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Hereticsīack in October, when this beautiful tome arrived at the bookstore, my coworkers were debating where it should be shelved.
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