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Summary: Absolutely hysterical!
Review: This was the first "Uppity" book by Leon that I read. Its great reading for many reasons. The mini biographies are well written, get right to why anyone should care about the place of these women in history, and are formatted in such a way that a person can read one bio or twenty in a sitting-- depending on how much time the person has.Also, Leon's sense of humor keeps the bios interesting and makes for easier reading.
Rating:
Summary: Absolutely hysterical!
Review: This was the first "Uppity" book by Leon that I read. Its great reading for many reasons. The mini biographies are well written, get right to why anyone should care about the place of these women in history, and are formatted in such a way that a person can read one bio or twenty in a sitting-- depending on how much time the person has. Also, Leon's sense of humor keeps the bios interesting and makes for easier reading.
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Summary: Lots of fun and humor!
Review: This was the first of the "Uppity" women books, that I read. In my opinion it is the best. It's so funny! You can't help but love it.
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Summary: Lots of fun and humor!
Review: This was the first of the "Uppity" women books, that I read. In my opinion it is the best. It's so funny! You can't help but love it.
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Summary: Insulting.
Review: What a horride little book. I (as a woman) found it very insulting to women of all era's. The book had a lack in information, and stretched the truth where it would fit. It ignored everything that women struggled for and made them seem silly for their attempts. With out them, we would not be where we are today. I gave it 1 star because there were no options for no stars.
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Summary: "Uppity Women" puts medieval damsels in their proper place
Review: When it came to recording history, many ancient historians downplayed the role of women. Author Vicki Leon has set out to ensure that women - both famous and infamous - fill their rightful place in the annals of time.
As a writer, Leon has a style that is fresh, as in brazen, a tone that is witty and a voice that is modern and American.
"Uppity Women" is filled with sketches of women who changed the world a little and women who changed the world a lot. One such lady, Helene Kottanerin, a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth of Hungary, was ordered into service as a secret agent. Her task was to steal the royal crown from Visegrad Castle for Elizabeth's infant son (the king-to-be). Kottanerin journeyed by sled over treacherous winter terrain. She successfully absconded with the royal crown, but barely survived the return trip when her sleigh plunged through the ice into the freezing Danube. Despite this misfortune, Kottanerin completed the mission and later penned her memoirs. After 500 years, this facinating lady's autobiography still awaits and English translation. Leon's book also includes prominent names such as the prioress Eglentyle of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales." Eglentyle refused to conform to the bishop's dress code for nuns, the basic black habit. Eglentyne, traveled about the world on pilgrimages, baring her forehead and dressed as she pleased wearing gold rings, hairpins, a low-cut dress, adorned with a silver girdle (belt) and furs. Leon gives readers a glimpse of the not-so-nice women in her account of Eszebet Bathory, of Romania. This female contemporary of Dracula had a "yen to stay young" and believed that daily baths in the blood of young girls would do the wonders for her skin. She murdered some 610 young females living about her castle so she could soak in their blood. It was years before she was found out. Eventually she was brought to justice and was walled up in her own castle. Though there is admirable research by Leon, Uppity Women is not weighed down with detail. It is a breezy read.
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