A review by glitterbomb47
Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World by Rosalind Miles

2.0

Miles undertakes a worthy and epic project, but unfortunately is not up to the task. As history, it's a mess. In her defense, some of the data on early "matriarchies" has only come to light since the book was originally published. However, Miles quotes Merlin Stone and Robert Graves to demonstrate history! She truly believes chastity belts were used in the middle ages. This is some very lazy fact checking or willful ignorance. The book uses a parallelism approach that hasn't been in vogue since the 60s (this book was published in 1988). Miles cherry picks her facts. She includes extraneous details in a book that really can't afford them. She also make many assertions that she fails to back up in the slightest. It was entertaining, but not useful as history.