Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History
Expansive, inclusive and elegantly woven ... A behemoth you may be inclined to skim, until you realize you’re actually luxuriating in every word ... Gregory has a novelist’s sense for story, character and moments of levity.
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Gregory makes a persuasive argument that women have always been successfully subversive in small ways ... Gregory has the novelist’s eye for the quirky and the vivid; the wryness of a confident narrator. Normal Women, with its 50 pages of notes, is a lasting work of social history in which the wealth of detail is perhaps its flaw: the vast subject matter, structured chronologically, can get samey over 900 years.
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This new nonfiction work strives to restore them to their rightful place in history, and in so doing radically reframe our national story. To an impressive extent, it succeeds.
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