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Because I Was a Girl: True Stories for Girls of All Ages
256 pp.
| Holt |
October, 2017 |
TradeISBN 978-1-250-15446-0$18.99
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YA
This compilation of real women's gender discrimination narratives from the 1920s to the present day is halfway between browsable coffee table book and a collective memoir. Heavy on eye-popping graphic design but light on historical context, the book is commercially inspirational yet it lacks grounding in why gender has been an obstacle for women throughout the last decade.