Published in 2016
126 pages
Jacky Fleming went to a suffragette school in London. She emerged awesomely uneducated because of the teachers’ inexplicable preference for Latin as a first language. A year at Chelsea School of Art and a degree in fine art at Leeds University greatly improved her table-football technique. Other qualifications include A- for posture and a silver medal in Latin-American dancing. A brief stint in the art department of a London Periodical was followed by eleven years teaching art as a foreign language. Jacky lives in Yorkshire and hates cooking.
Her cartoons have been published by the BBC, the Women’s press, Virago, Leeds Postcards, Aberdeen University Press, Longman, Spare Rib and others.
What is this book about?
Can women be geniuses? Or are their arms too short? Did we only learn about three women at school? What were all the others doing?
The Trouble With Women does for girls what 1066 and All That did for boys: it reminds us of what we were taught about women in history lessons at school, which is to say, not a lot. A brilliantly witty book of cartoons, it reveals some of our greatest thinkers’ baffling theories about women. We learn that even Charles Darwin, long celebrated for his open, objective scientific mind, believed that women would never achieve anything important, because of their smaller brains.
Get ready to laugh, wince and rescue forgotten women from the ‘dustbin of history’, whilst keeping a close eye out for tell-tale “genius hair.” You will never look at history in the same way again.
