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Meet the unsung sheroes of history: the diverse, defiant and daring
(wo)men who changed the rules, and their identities, to get sh*t
done. You’ll encounter Kit Cavanagh, the swaggering Irish dragoon
who was the first woman to be buried in London with full military
honours; marauding eighteenth-century pirates Mary Read and Anne
Bonny, who collided on the high seas after swapping their
petticoats for pantaloons; Ellen Craft, an escaped slave who
masqueraded as a white master to spirit her husband-to-be to
freedom; and Billy Tipton, the swinging jazz musician, who led a
double life as an adult, taking five wives along the way. Then
there are the women who still have to dress like men to live their
best lives, like the inspirational football-lovers in Iran, who
risk everything to take their place in the stands. A call to action
for the modern world, this book celebrates the #GenderRebels who
paved the way for women everywhere to be soldiers and spies; kings
and queens; firefighters, doctors, pilots; and a Swiss Army
knife’s-worth more. These superbly spirited (wo)men all had one
thing in common: they defied the rules to progress in a man’s
world.
Lady Sidekick has gathered up all the tired tropes for women so you
don't have to! From the Femme Fatale to the Crazy Cat Lady, the
Bridezilla to the Girl Next Door, it calls them out and, most
importantly, RECLAIMS them. For too long women have been
pigeonholed into a handful of tired and basic characters, their
personality and behaviour criticised if they don't fit the role
society thinks they should be playing. Lady Sidekick analyses fifty
of the most moth-eaten, antiquated, cookie-cutter females cliches,
archetypes and tokens that twenty-first-century women are SO over.
Through hilarious breakdowns, comic illustrations and
tongue-firmly-in-cheek-fuelled study, it slow-roasts each trope,
sprinkling them with sarcasm, seasoning them with feminism,
infusing them with activism, before serving them up ready for the
modern masses to enjoy. It's time to shove a stick of dynamite up
the arse of the out-of-date - and Lady Sidekick is ready to light
the wick. Happy trope-spotting!
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