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Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History by Philippa Gregory
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
I start my saying this is a chunky book and pretty heavy as a hardback. The content is also pretty hard going. Lots of women being mistreated, murdered, raped etc and told through an unemovtive voice. You can tell that the intention was to be non biased, but how can a woman be unbiased when describing how women have been treated in the last 1000 years?
I liked the way it was layed out. First by time period, then by subject matter. I felt I was learning a lot as I read it, but the only thing I remember right now is about female husbands and pretending to be men to marry and steal their money!
It took me a month to read, alongside my fiction reads. Interestingly I was reading the medaeval section whilst reading Song of the Huntress and Victorian with Babel. It really fed into my imagination of the time period, including racism of the time and advanced in technology affecting workers.
I'd recommend this one as a bookcase piece to read a bit every so often, or when reading some historical fiction for context.
I liked the way it was layed out. First by time period, then by subject matter. I felt I was learning a lot as I read it, but the only thing I remember right now is about female husbands and pretending to be men to marry and steal their money!
It took me a month to read, alongside my fiction reads. Interestingly I was reading the medaeval section whilst reading Song of the Huntress and Victorian with Babel. It really fed into my imagination of the time period, including racism of the time and advanced in technology affecting workers.
I'd recommend this one as a bookcase piece to read a bit every so often, or when reading some historical fiction for context.