![]() ![]() It hit number five on The New York Times’ best-seller list and is still going strong four months after its release. “When I visit classrooms, the boys are equally as enthusiastic about it as the girls.”īoy, girls, men, and women are buying it up like crazy. “Boys are psyched on this book!” says Schatz. Photo of Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl by Lena Wolff. history, one for each letter in the alphabet-from Angela Davis to Zora Neale Hurston. The book profiles 26 different women in U.S. That’s exactly what Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl set out to do with Rad American Women A-Z. And w hen women aren’t happy with that (sexist) answer-or when we point out that media with small marketing budgets won’t sell well regardless of gender-we’re told to make our own movies. ![]() ![]() ![]() All too often, women are told that stuff about girls doesn’t sell. In 2014, only 12 percent of the top-grossing films had female protagonists. After years of outrage over the lack of female representation in superhero films, all we got was the promise of a Wonder Woman movie for 2017 and a Captain Marvel movie for 2018. The hunt for women-centered movies, television, and books continues to be an uphill battle in the United States and across the world. Meanwhile millions of girls are left to wonder if there will ever be a Black Widow movie. Movies starring Daredevil, the Hulk, Ant-Man, Captain America, Thor, Green Lantern, and Ghost Rider. ![]()
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