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Autumn Stephens is a former book reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle, She lives in Berkeley, California with her nuclear family
Werken van Autumn Stephens
Wild Women: Crusaders, Curmudgeons, and Completely Corsetless Ladies in the Otherwise Virtuous Victorian Era (1992) 265 exemplaren
Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots (1996) 111 exemplaren
Wild Women in the White House: The Formidable Females Behind the Throne, on the Phone, and (Sometimes) Under the Bed… (1997) 37 exemplaren
Roar Softly and Carry a Great Lipstick: 28 Women Writers on Life, Sex, and Survival (2004) 34 exemplaren
The Secret Lives of Lawfully Wedded Wives: 27 Women Writers on Love, Infidelity, Sex Roles, Race, Kids, and More (2006) 11 exemplaren
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- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Woonplaatsen
- New Mexico, USA
Eugene, Oregon, USA
Berkeley, California, USA - Opleiding
- Stanford University (creative writing)
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- 19
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- 642
- Populariteit
- #39,293
- Waardering
- 3.6
- Besprekingen
- 9
- ISBNs
- 32
- Talen
- 1
This collection of very short biographical blurbs is organized by the transgressions the women committed against the expectations of their sex. With cheesy alliterative chapters like Dreaded Desperados and Gutsy Gamblers, Holy Terrors and Pope Perturbers, Flamboyant Flirts and Lascivious Libertines, and so forth, the 150 biographies focus on the scandalous aspect of each women that best fits the chapter category. This makes many of the women within each chapter start to sound the same. In fact, even across the chapters the brevity of the biographies make the women sound similar. There are only so many ways to rebel against the "Angel in the House" trope but the sameness is highlighted by featuring so many women in so short a space. Stephens' tone is quite glib as she describes these women and it is difficult to figure out how the author determined which women to include as not all of them are nearly as notable as the others. Some of the women are very well known while others are quite unknown. The women profiled here are primarily American women of European descent and one blurb about a woman who contested her father's will for fifty years, only winning the case six years after her own demise is repeated twice within the pages. Given the nature of the book and the lack of in depth information (both intentional), this is really more a book to dip into and out of rather than to sit and read in one go. It was a decent enough diversion but no more than that.… (meer)