She caused a riot 100 unknown women who built cities, sparked revolutions, & massively crushed it

Hannah Jewell

Book - 2018

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 wer...e 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 3rd-century Syrian queen Zenobia to 20th-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.

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Subjects
Genres
Biographies
Published
Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks, Inc [2018]
Language
English
Main Author
Hannah Jewell (author)
Physical Description
xiii, 300 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9781492662921
  • Introduction
  • Wonderful Ancient Weirdos
  • Hatshepsut
  • Brigid of Kildare
  • Sappho
  • Seondeok of Silla
  • Khayzuran
  • Subh
  • Hildegard von Bingen
  • Margery Kempe
  • Women With Impressive Kill Counts
  • Artemisia I of Caria
  • Æthelflæd
  • Ælfthryth
  • Zenobia
  • Tomoe Gozen
  • Sorghaghtani Beki
  • Wú Méi
  • Kosem Sultan
  • Empress Wu
  • Laskarina Bouboulina
  • Ching Shih
  • Women Who Were Geniuses Despite the Fact That They Were Girls
  • Hypatia
  • Fatima al-Fihri
  • Wang Zhenyi
  • Jang-geum
  • Artemisia Gentileschi
  • Raden Ajeng Kartini
  • Emmy Noether
  • Nana Asma'u
  • Jean Macnamara
  • Annie Jump Cannon
  • Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
  • Hedy Lamarr
  • Louisa Atkinson
  • Laura Redden Searing
  • Gabriela Brimmer
  • Women Who Wrote Dangerous Things
  • Murasaki Shikibu
  • Ulayya bint al-Mahdi
  • Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
  • Tarabai Shinde
  • Phillis Wheatley
  • Nellie Bly
  • Elizabeth Hart
  • Jovita Idár
  • Louise Mack
  • Beatrice Potter Webb
  • Julia de Burgos
  • Marie Chauvet
  • Zabel Yesayan
  • Mirabal Sisters
  • Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Ida B. Wells-Barnett
  • Frances E. W. Harper
  • Ethel Payne
  • Women Who Wore Trousers and Enjoyed Terrifying Hobbies
  • Annie Smith Peck
  • Jean Batten
  • Khutulun
  • Pancho Barnes
  • Julie d'Aubigny
  • Lilian Bland
  • Lotfia El Nadi
  • Women Who Fought Empires and Racists
  • Queen Nanny of the Maroons
  • Njinga of Angola
  • Rani Chennamma
  • Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi
  • Yaa Asantewaa
  • Jind Kaur
  • Lozen
  • Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
  • Queen Liliuokalani
  • Fanny Cochrane Smith
  • Lillian Ngoyi
  • Miriam Makeba
  • Te Puea Herangi
  • Whina Cooper
  • Susan La Flesche Picotte
  • Sojourner Truth
  • Women Who Knew How to Have a Good-Ass Time
  • Empress Theodora
  • Wallada bint al-Mustakfi
  • Nell Gwyn
  • George Sand
  • Lucy Hicks Anderson
  • Mercedes de Acosta
  • Gladys Bentley
  • Coccinelle
  • Umm Kulthum
  • Josephine Baker
  • Women Who Punched Nazis
  • Sophie Scholl
  • Hannah Arendt
  • Noor Inayat Khan
  • Nancy Wake
  • Dorothy Thompson
  • Irena Sendler
  • Your New Revolutionary Role Models
  • Olympe de Gouges
  • Policarpa Salavarrieta
  • Sofia Perovskaya
  • Alexandra Kollontai
  • Juana Azurduy
  • Rosa Luxemburg
  • Constance Markievicz
  • Luisa Moreno
  • Jayaben Desai
  • Conclusion
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index
  • About the Author
Review by Booklist Review

Washington Post pop-culture video host Jewell has crafted indomitable coverage of historical women everyone should know. In this collection of minibiographies, she introduces dozens of female-identifying revolutionaries, dissidents, geniuses, muckrakers, and conquerors. Her subjects span thousands of years, from Queen Zenobia of third-century-BCE Syria to Nana Asma'u of eighteenth-century Nigeria to Josephine Baker. Jewell narrates the lives of these women with a righteous comic and conversational tone, and her enthusiasm is contagious. The women chosen are organized into larger chapters, some thematically light (women who knew how to party, women who unabashedly wore pants) while some tackle heavier topics (women who punched Nazis, literally and metaphorically). Though she refuses to name him beyond the introduction, Jewell's work is in clear response to the election of Donald Trump. Still, her intentions with this book are clear and optimistic. Her hope that the women she studied become commonplace names infuses every paragraph. Galvanizing and laugh-out-loud funny, this book is a riot on par with the women it presents.--Eathorne, Courtney Copyright 2018 Booklist

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.
Review by Library Journal Review

Jewell (pop culture video team, Washington Post) offers a cheeky collection of 100 minibiographies of inspiring women who are, for the most part, completely absent from history books. Spanning thousands of years, Jewell's vignettes introduce impressive political leaders, scientists, writers and poets, and spies and revolutionaries, loosely grouped by theme (women who were geniuses; women who fought empires and racists; women who wore trousers and enjoyed terrifying hobbies). From the fearsome and very successful Chinese pirate Ching Shih ("She f**cked up that glass ceiling that had been holding lady pirates back too long") to the great Egyptian mathematician and astronomer Hypathia ("sadly no one ever informed her that actually girls are really bad at math because their brains are too frilly and emotional"), listeners will laugh out loud at the pithy descriptions of extraordinary women in a wide variety of fields and, perhaps, be inspired to seek out more information about them. Narrator Rachael Beresford has a lovely, lilting voice that some listeners may find to be a bit of a mismatch to the irreverent, and often quite raunchy, tone of Jewell's writing. VERDICT This inspiring and hilarious title should find a home in most biography collections, with the caveat that some listeners could object to the coarse language; the print version, with its colorful, fun layout, could be a better choice for some libraries. ["The book is written in a fun, irreverent, and easy-to-read style. The vignettes will serve to pique interest and motivate readers to attempt to learn more about these amazing women": LJ 2/15/18 review of the Sourcebooks pap.]-Beth -Farrell, -Cleveland State Univ. Law Lib. © Copyright 2018. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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