What can I say? I should have known 2 pages in. Laura is a self described feminist. You get ten pages of how women are marginalized throughout history. How their stories are untold. No one will argue that!
And within these first ten pages she discredit herself as a historian. Laura rambles on and on about the lives of well known females from ancient history to modern times, who we know little to nothing about. This cannot be excused. To demonize the ancient writers for their lack of inclusion of the female story show a gross concept error in fundamental historiography. The people who lived, those that recorded what we have today, during time of these famous historical females did not view life as we do. They lived, their beliefs, and understanding would be a fantasy novel to us today.
This shit shows continues as she does the same thing these ancient authors did. Laura fills page after page of near non relevant back story. She never had enough material to consider a book on the subject. The back story or stage set by historicals males. The chapters contain little to nothing about the females she is writing about. 6 pages into the chapter and you have no idea who is the person of interest. Your not even close to getting to their story. Which is understandable as there is little to nothing known about them. But to fill a 180 pages to get your book printed is a fuckin disgrace!
This should have been a research article or magazine article no more.
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