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Funny and Feminist TriviaWomen of Interest is a humorous compendium of little known facts about the history, fame, fortunes, fashions, and fictions of the female species–enough to impress your mother and your boss, win arguments with your boyfriends and husbands, and generally know more about your fabulous female self.One of the most fascinating trivia books for women. Did you know that women outnumber men by five to one in shoplifting convictions? Or that researchers at Northwestern University found that men change their minds two to three times more than women?
Women of Interest spans history, crosses cultures, ranges from the silly to the salacious to the truly useful and back again. Designed to delight the feminist in you, this outrageously funny book is organized into ten trivia-filled chapters covering all sorts of humorous histories and fun facts. Ideal for trivia games for adults or feminist gifts, now women really can know everything.
Feminist, funny gifts for women. It’s time to challenge that know-it-all girlfriend, or grab the ultimate bathroom reader for your feminist BFF. Whether you’re searching for feminist books or trivia books,
Women of Interest makes a wonderful addition to trivia games and bookshelves alike. Inside, you’ll learn that:
- Diamonds didn’t become a girl’s best friend until the thirteenth century. Before that, they were for men only.
- Zazel, a woman, was the first human cannonball. She launched into the air through a giant spring inside a cannon.
- Marilyn Monroe was the very first Artichoke Queen in the artichoke capital of the world.
If you enjoy comedy books, trivia books for adults, or funny gifts for her─and enjoyed titles such as What If, 399 Games Puzzles & Trivia Challenges, Uncle John's Truth Trivia and the Pursuit of Factiness, The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, or Thank You for Being a Friend: A Golden Girls Trivia Book─then you’ll love Women of Interest.
List of contents
foreword
Chapter 1: women
and their wardrobes
Chapter 2: the body
beautiful-and not so
Chapter 3: ladies' matters of
loveChapter 4: in the ladies' room
Chapter 5: ladies look at the
animal kingdomChapter 6: women
doing it for themselvesChapter 7: saintly manifestations and royal subjects
Chapter 8: women's sporting life
Chapter 9: celebrity sightings
of the female varietyChapter 10: final feminine facts you absolutely can't live without
selected bibliography
About the author
Alicia Alvrez is a San Francisco Bay Area writer, a woman’s studies scholar, and avid trivia fan. She specializes in compiling facts about women and writing for and about women. She is also the author of The Ladies' Room Reader, The Ladies' Room Reader Revisited, and Mama Says: The Best Advice from Some of the World's Best Mothers.
Becca Anderson is a writer, gardener and teacher living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Originally from Ohio, Becca Anderson credits her first grade teacher as a great inspiration and runs several popular classes and workshops including How to Put Your Passion on Paper. Anderson is the bestselling author of Badass Affirmations and The Book of Awesome Women.Erin Barrett grew up in South East Asia and traveled extensively through her childhood years, instilling a lasting and deep curiosity about almost everything. This is reflected in the diversity of topics she has written about in her numerous books, dozens of articles, and her nationally syndicated column, Random Kinds of Factness, which appeared in newspapers around the country for over seven years. She currently resides in Northern California with her partner and their feline, Eleanor Rigby Soupstock.
Summary
Dive deep into delightful bits of women's trivia (did you know the first human cannonball was a woman named Zazel?) with Women of Interest.
