Hi Sadiq,
Girl Squad: 20 female friendships that changed history was a surprised book mail from Quirk Books. Once I pulled it out of the envelope I was looking forward to reading it. I love History and I have study Feminism so this book is right up my alley.
Girl Squad is split into 5 groups;
- Athlete Squads
- Political & Activist Squads
- Warrior Squads
- Scientist Squads
- Artist Squads
All the Squads span all different period of history even up to 21st century. The stories tell you about the women but also the world that surround them, and how they friendships gave them strength.
I found all the stories fascinating and what they had to put up with engrossing. Below I have list some of my favourite stories.
- The Edinburgh Seven – Because of them we have female doctors in the UK. They continued with their education even when they had to deal with awful treatment from Male students and male teachers.
- The Dahomey Amazons – There are a couple of stories about strong female warriors, but the Dahomey Amazons are true Badasses. I love the fact that the women would not / or would surrender after the men.
- The Zohra Orchestra – These young women are an inspiration, they create music to heal Afghanistan’s, while deal with death threats.
- Ruth Bader Ginsbury, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan The Ladies of the U.S Supreme Court. – The individual stories are incredible and the way they support each other is heart warming.
The writing style is perfect, me and my friends like telling each other stories like this, and this book is like just listening to a friend telling me the stories.
Girl Squad is prefect read for anyone that like Badass women, friendships and history.
My rating for Girl Squad is 5 out of 5.
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