Synopses & Reviews
Truly fun for all ages, this unique coloring book subversively and playfully examines the female gender stereotypes that pervade daily life. A diverse group of pictures reinforce positive gender roles throughout the book and show that girls are thinkers, creators, fighters, and healers. Some of the characters who show the new face of the feminine include Rapunzel, who now has power tools and Miss Muffet, who tells the spider off and considers a career as an arachnologist. Deconstructing the homogeneity of gender expression has never been so colorful.
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"Get this cool feminist coloring book even if you don't have a kid." Jane Pratt, founding editor, Jane and Sassy magazines
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"An ingeniously subversive coloring book." Heather Findlay, editor in chief, Girlfriends magazine
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"Some of the pictures and captions in this colouring book are funny. A woman riding a tractor: Who says girls don't like to play in the dirt? Two ballerinas dancing: No one wants to fight the patriarchy alone. Make friends." Guardian
Synopsis
Twenty-seven pages of feminist fun This is a coloring book you will never outgrow. Girls Are Not Chicks is a subversive and playful way to examine how pervasive gender stereotypes are in every aspect of our lives. This book helps to deconstruct the homogeneity of gender expression in children's media by showing diverse pictures that reinforce positive gender roles for girls.
Color the Rapunzel for a new society. She now has power tools, a roll of duct tape, a Tina Turner album, and a bus pass
Paint outside the lines with Miss Muffet as she tells that spider off and considers a career as an arachnologist
Girls are not chicks. Girls are thinkers, creators, fighters, healers, and superheroes.
About the Author
Jacinta Bunnell is an artist and writer who promotes a gender-defiant new world. Julie Novak is the art director for New York House magazine, an actor, a writer, a musician, and an artist. They both live in New York's Hudson Valley.