She Caused a Riot, Hannah Jewell
She Caused a Riot, Hannah Jewell
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She Caused a Riot
100 Unknown Women Who Built Cities, Sparked Revolutions, and Massively Crushed It

Author: Hannah Jewell

Narrator: Rachael Beresford

Unabridged: 11 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/12/2018

Categories: Nonfiction, History, Women


Synopsis

Women's stories are often written as if they spent their entire time on Earth casting woeful but beautiful glances towards the horizon and sighing into the bitter wind at the thought of any conflict.

Well, that's not how it f**king happened. When you hear about a woman who was 100% pure and good, you're probably missing the best chapters in her life's story. Maybe she slept around. Maybe she stole. Maybe she crashed planes. Maybe she got shot, or maybe she shot a bad guy (who probably had it coming). Maybe she caused a scandal. Maybe she caused a riot . . .

From badass writer Hannah Jewell, She Caused a Riot is an empowering, no-holds-barred look into the epic adventures and dangerous exploits of 100 inspiring women who were too brave, too brilliant, too unconventional, too political, too poor, not ladylike enough, and not white enough to be recognized by their shitty contemporaries.

From third-century Syrian queen Zenobia to twentieth-century Nigerian women's rights activist Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, these are women who gave absolutely zero f**ks, and will inspire a courageous new movement of women to do the same.

About Hannah Jewell

Hannah Jewell is the author of 100 Nasty Women of History and She Caused a Riot.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sarah

I took my time with this book for 2 reasons. Firstly because if I read it all in like a week or so, the women would all get jumbled in my mind and I wouldn't have enough time to reflect on each of them individually. Then secondly, because this book made me so mad, that I had to put it down at times.......more

Goodreads review by Camille

I have so much to say about this book! Both good and bad things. As the subtitle on the book makes it clear, it’s about “unknown” women of history who did great things. I added quotation marks as I think anyone with a decent bit of general knowledge will know a few of them, or so one hopes. So, let’......more

Goodreads review by Elle

Great topic but not a book for people that enjoy learning about history. It’s a shame that nuggets of interesting information hide between the authors apparent dislike of men, unfunny commentary and just general uninteresting BS to fill page space. If you think you would enjoy 400+ pages of click bai......more

Goodreads review by Myra

Okay, honestly, this book was so hard to rate. On one hand I enjoyed it, the premise is great and a book like this is honestly so important, on the other hand, I really didn't like the writing style and kept getting annoyed every now and then. So like? What do I base my rating on? I ended up on a 2......more

Mi-a plăcut cartea asta din punct de vedere istoric, fiindcă am aflat despre o grămadă de femei puternice și curajoase pe care nu le-am mai întâlnit până acum nicăieri. În plus, am „citit” cartea în format audio, iar naratoarea a fost pe gustul meu și mi-a ținut atenția captivă. DAR! E un mare dar ai......more