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Feministisch! Herrlich sarkastisch! Und gar nicht dämlich!
Können Frauen Genies sein? Oder sind ihre Arme zu kurz und ihre Köpfe zu klein? Warum haben wir im Geschichtsunterricht nur über zwei drei Frauen etwas gelernt? Was haben eigentlich all die anderen früher gemacht?

"Jacky Fleming schaut genau hin - und das muss sie auch, denn sie sind schwer zu finden: Frauen in der Geschichte." The Guardian
"Schon der Anblick der weiblichen Gestalt lehrt, dass das Weib weder zu großen geistigen, noch körperlichen Arbeiten bestimmt ist." Arthur Schopenhauer

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Reminds you of what you were taught about women in history lessons at school, which is to say, not a lot. This book of cartoons reveals some of our greatest thinkers´ baffling theories about women. It states that even Charles Darwin believed that women would never achieve anything important, because of their smaller brains.

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CAN WOMEN BE GENIUSES? OR ARE THEIR ARMS TOO SHORT?
WHY DID WE ONLY LEARN ABOUT THREE WOMEN AT SCHOOL?
WHAT WERE ALL THE OTHERS DOING?

´Brilliantly, mordantly funny and extremely clever... There isn´t a man, woman or child who wouldn´t benefit from spending time with this.´ India Knight

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.

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Jacky Fleming, 1955 in London geboren. In ihrem Kunststudium an der Leeds University begann sie, sich mit dem Feminismus auseinanderzusetzen. Ihre ersten Comicstrips erschienen 1978, seitdem zeichnet sie für Zeitungen, u.a. für The Guardian, The Observer, The Big Issue sowie für verschiedene Verlage.

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Jacky Fleming is a feminist cartoonist whose work first became known through her series of pre-internet postcards which reached women around the world by snail mail. Following a foundation year at the Chelsea School of Art, she went on to study Fine Art at Leeds University, where her contemporaries formed bands like the Mekons, and the Gang of Four. Her first published work, which appeared in Spare Rib, was a university essay for feminist art historian Griselda Pollock which Fleming handed in as a cartoon strip. Since then her work has featured in many publications including the Guardian, the Independent, New Statesman, New Internationalist, Red Pepper, Observer, Diva, You magazine and the Big Issue. She has published six books of cartoons, The Trouble with Women is her seventh.

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