Questa "Breve storia delle donne" elenca tutto quel che abbiamo imparato sulle donne nei libri scolastici, che, a dire il vero, è ben poco. E ci ricorda alcune ridicole teorie sulle donne espresse da pensatori geniali. Come Charles Darwin, tanto celebrato per la sua mente aperta, obiettiva e scientifica, il quale era convinto che le donne non avrebbero mai raggiunto risultati notevoli nel campo del pensiero a causa del loro cervello di dimensi...
Jacky Fleming is a feminist cartoonist whose work first became known through her series of pre-internet postcards which reached women around the world by snail mail. Following a foundation year at the Chelsea School of Art, she went on to study Fine Art at Leeds University, where her contemporaries formed bands like the Mekons, and the Gang of Four. Her first published work, which appeared in Spare Rib, was a university essay for feminist art ...
Feministisch! Herrlich sarkastisch! Und gar nicht dämlich!
Können Frauen Genies sein? Oder sind ihre Arme zu kurz und ihre Köpfe zu klein? Warum haben wir im Geschichtsunterricht nur über zwei drei Frauen etwas gelernt? Was haben eigentlich all die anderen früher gemacht?
»Jacky Fleming schaut genau hin - und das muss sie auch, denn sie sind schwer zu finden: Frauen in der Geschichte.« The Guardian
»Schon der Anblick der weiblichen Gestalt leh...
