I did not finished this one. It was anthology about women who made history and who are dead. There are already some similar books so this one did not wake my interest. Though, what I read I like it.

I feel like this book would make for a better physical book than it does an ebook. Great concept but it didn't quite work for me at the this time, in this format.

Some of the women in history featured in this book include: Annie Oakley, Eleanor Roosevelt, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriet Tubman and Marie Curie, but there are other women we may not recognize too. These inspiring women in history did such things as being humanitarians, raising awareness and lending their efforts as social activists. Their efforts and lives paved the way for women and young women today through the decades. The goal of this book to inform readers how women throughout history have helped change the world and inspire women as well as girls today letting them know they can do the same. This book does a wonderful job reaching this goal.

A national bestseller, this gorgeously illustrated letterpress-inspired book combines feminist history with a vision for a better future. Dead Feminists is a lushly illustrated and inclusive celebration of inspiring women who transformed the world and created social change.

Exactly as described, I really enjoyed it.

I'm 99% I left a review of this before but apparently not.

Loved loved loved. Beautiful design work in the posters and great synopses of each women's contributions to history and their personal achievements.

Love the format for bite sized bios on women through history. Sheds light on sections of history not fully talked about in most history classes.

Reading feminist books gives me a pleasure like no other. There is nothing like spending hours in the world of feminism with figures highlighted in this book. I can't get enough of books like this one.

As a Board Member of a Polish foundation called MamyGłos, which aims towards empowering young women, I LOVED THIS BOOK. It's incredible, beautiful and informative. It raises important issues and handles them perfectly. The artwork is amazing. My only wish is that I had received a print copy - this doesn't work so well as an ebook.

Perfect for artists, feminists, human rights activists and PEOPLE.

Such an interesting collection of empowering women. I’ve read many similar books, but this one takes the cake for choosing. Variety of women and going into great detail about their lives.

Really liked the stories that accompanied the posters but unfortunately the pictures of the posters didn't show up very well on my kindle but I'm sure they're beautiful in physical form.

I’m currently on a bit of a feminist wave. I’m reading lots of books about female figures throughout history that haven’t been celebrated to their fullest. That is why I was really happy to have been approved Dead Feminists on NetGalley.

O’Leary and Spring have combined their personal print making skills and used this to celebrate certain women throughout history. Some of these women are well known; others less so. What is interesting is seeing how O’Leary and Spring accentuate the role that these women have played and doing so in a visual way.

I genuinely loved this book. What is more is that I learned about women who I hadn’t ever come across before and it has inspired me to research into them further.

Overall, Dead Feminists is a quirky and inspiring look at the ways and whys women should be celebrated.

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Learned so much in this work and the book was physically beautiful. Definitely recommended.

Absolutely beautiful - would love to see it in print form! Full of interesting and inspiring women!

I'm going to find a way to buy the available posters because they are stunning!

This was really great. The book features several different sections [Make, Lead, Play, etc] and each section features three feminists whose primary work fits into that category. Each feminist featured has a portrait with a short blurb about her life / work and also several secondary historical pictures / diagrams related to her particular topic. Each feminist also gets a full page poster designed around her work and a page explaining some of the details and design choices in the poster.

I really liked the way each section was broken down and you could tell that a lot of thought went into designing every page of the book, not just the posters. I also liked how they tried to pick women from many different cultures and eras and always tried to put everything in the context of the time period. It's definitely a really fun read and I learned a lot of cool things while I was reading it.

An art collective started making broadsides, to commemorate famous women in history, but also to raise money for various causes. They have been doing this for a number of years, and decided to collect all of these broadsides into a book.

But what good would such a book be, if you knew nothing about the women that inspired these. So each of the braodsides, which were created, have a breakdown of why the symbles used, and text used were done, plus a short bio of each woman. And perhaps you think you know Marie Curie, or Rachel Carson, but after reading this book you will learn more, so much more.

This is a great collection of wonderful women, and wonderful history.

Everyone should ahve this book as a wonderful history lesson, as well as a beautiful piece of artwork.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for the advance copy in exchange for a review.

This book was beautifully laid out and informative. The authors included many names that are recognizable, but also included some women that I had not heard of, which I loved. The unknown women inspired me to do more research on them after reading the book. Women have been so essential to history and it is nice that they finally are getting the recognition they deserve!

Dead Feminists is a bit like a historical journey bringing us the stories and memories from feminists across the ages and across the world. I learnt so much reading it and I can recommend for those who want to learn more about badass women across history. It's also a beautiful book about printing quotes from each one of them.

In format, a scrapbook collection of short biographies and broadside prints produced by the authors on historical feminists. In some cases, the women were feminists before feminism was a thing, but they strived for the lives and opportunities of equality.

(Additionally interesting, as an artist who dabbles in engraving and etching is a forward discussion of the collaboration that brought the prints into being.)

Each print is also discussed in terms of the stylistic and elements chosen to include.

Additionally, each section includes reproductions of ephemera and imagery from that woman’s lifetime or environ.

As a side note, I had misinterpreted the title. “Dead Feminists: Historic Heroines in Living Color” - my brain had interpreted as feminists of color. There are some women of color, but predominantly the collection is white American women.

Overall, an excellent taste of women of influence, some of whom are problematic in current context due to racism, or lack of sensitivity, which the authors/artists acknowledge, as well as that they are writing and creating from their role as white women.

The broadsides are gorgeously intricate and this was an excellent read to both get some historical background on the women depicted, as well as insight into the design and artistic choices by O’Leary and Spring.

I love reading book about historical feminists. ESPECIALLY ones I've never heard of. It's easy to know a little about a lot, but with feminism, you tend to know a lot about a very few. I'm always seeking out books with stories about women in history who made a major difference, but who never really get talked about.

And that's what this book should have been. With maybe four or five exceptions, I really knew very few women featured in here. And I was absolutely 100% ready to soak up all this knowledge about them.

What I got instead was a lot of information on how to make Broadsides. While these broadsides were absolutely beautiful, and full of Deep Meaning, that's...that's not what I wanted. So, maybe the error was on my part in thinking this was a book about the feminists as opposed to a book about the authors and their artistic process.

There is definitely an audience for this book, but it's certainly not me. I felt really let down by the blips we got on women who were bad asses of history.

Points for including Elizabeth Zimmerman, though. Knitting power.