A wonderful exploration

Countless, mostly unknown to the general public, women are presented and celebrated in this collection: women of all social backgrounds, ages, countries, religions, ways of life. Almost all of them fought against ingrained prejudice and very often downright hostility by their social environment but still managed to leave a mark of their passing on the world, as writers, philosophers, artists, campaigners, scientists, musicians, or by simply existing. The collection is remarkable and must have taken the author years of research. Kudos to the reader for making a good effort with many foreign names: where I can evaluate her pronunciation, I find it more than adequate, and where I cannot I find it convincing enough. Her reading is also passionate, though not hot-headed, and conveys the urgency to rediscover these and many more women that are sorely lacking from our history textbooks and common knowledge. Overall it is a worthy effort on the part of the author and the reader and should be considered by anyone interested in history and/or society and the way we see it today – if only, that is, a fraction of that effort could have been put in by the Audible people, who gave us a book divided in 195 (one hundred and ninety five!) chapters with absolutely no indication of title or internal subdivision. Do you want to know about the Trưng sisters, or Émilie du Châtelet, or Anna Comnena? Do you even know if the author considers them? Spoiler: yes, she does, but good luck finding them! I really hope this can be sorted because it makes navigating the content almost impossible...

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