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Title: Bitches, Bimbos, and Ballbreakers: The Guerrilla Girls' Illustrated Guide to Female Stereotypes by Guerilla Girls ISBN: 0-14-200101-5 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (8 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Some misinformation, but overall very good
Comment: I love the Guerilla Girls site and I love what they stand for. The new book about stereotypes of women is fun and informative. The section on Tokyo Rose is enlightening and rather sad, and kudos to them for exposing some of the myths of the "sainted" Mother Theresa. These things need to be said and recorded.
But in the book they also make the statement that about 8 million women were put to death from the Europe witch hunts. HUH??? Who is their fact checker? Check population statistics of Europe from that time and you'll see that with 8 million gone in 200 years would have led to a PRECIPITOUS decline in population - a decline that did not happen.
From on source on witchcraft comes this:
"Church persecution of witches occurred in England,
France, Germany, Italy, Scotland, and Spain. In
1431, Joan of Arc, the French national heroine, was
condemned to death as a witch by the English and
was burned at the stake. From 1484 to 1782,
according to some historians, the Christian church
put to death about 300,000 women for practicing
witchcraft. Many of these women suffered such
terrible torture that they confessed to being
witches simply to avoid further torment. "
300,000 is a huge amount but not nearly as large as 8 million. Guerilla Girls are about truth, and I'd hate to have their credibility questioned by those willing to poke holes in any argument you make. The book has another error in that it says the Stonewall Riots were in 1968. Actually, they were in 1969.
This said, the book is well-designed, but just be wary about accepting everything at face value as two errors already jump out. I hope that the Guerilla Girls will continue to spread truth and education but I also hope they do their research first.
Rating: 5
Summary: Good book for smart women!
Comment: This book details some of the stereotypes faced by women. I use it in my college classes. The most interesting part is in the back on the book where they describe stereotypes like Barbie Dolls. This book really makes you think about what it means to be a woman and how men try to put us into these catagories. So read the book, shake things up, and confuse the guys by not giving them what they're looking for!
Rating: 3
Summary: Go read it in the bookstore!
Comment: The Guerilla Girls are cool. I am not disputing that. I am also not disputing that what they say in this book is true. It is.
I just wouldn't waste my money on it. It's sort of like cotton candy. By the time you're halfway through eating it, you're sick to your stomach and mad you wasted your money. There's nothing new in this book. It's not very indepth; on the contrary, I found it too simplistic.
Instead of calling it "intelligent," I would call it "cute." It might be okay for someone who is "just starting out" in feminism, so to speak, but if you've read a dozen books or more it's going to be the same old same old and you probably won't like it.
I didn't buy it. I read it sitting in the bookstore. And I'm glad I didn't waste my money.
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Title: The Guerrilla Girls' Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art by Guerrilla Girls ISBN: 014025997X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: February, 1998 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Confessions of the Guerrilla Girls by Girls Guerilla, Whitney Chadwick ISBN: 0060950889 Publisher: Harperperennial Library Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Power of Feminist Art by Mary D. Garrard, Norma Broude ISBN: 0810926598 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 01 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: The Mommy Myth : The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined Women by Susan Douglas, Meredith Michaels ISBN: 0743259998 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 09 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century by Rory Dicker, Alison Piepmeier ISBN: 1555535704 Publisher: Northeastern University Press Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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