Eve's Revenge: Saints, Sinners, and the Stand-Up Sisters of the Ultimate Extinction of Men

by Tama Starr

Men are beasts, authorities throughout the ages have agreed. Here, scolars of male behavior from St. Catherine of Siena ("Let not thy misfortune be such as to enter into any private conversation, with... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0151000840
• ISBN13: 9780151000845
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A new target of cutting wit?

Jokes can be both funny and cutting, and often it seems that women have been the victims of comedy more often than men. But jokes aside, this book of quotations demonstrates that even if the numbers are not equal, men too have been the target of commentary but amusing and attacking for centuries. The illustrations are simple black & white drawings of a "Victorian" style, rather satirically in itself considering the gender roles at that time. The book is organized on the premise that males are a extincted species and this is a pseudo-historical view of them by the survivors, females. The book has five chapters where the quotations are organized by subject and tone. I found it actually quite interesting but not necessarily funny, but them I'm a historian and a feminist so I was over-analyzing the content, I'm sure. I find it to be a good source for bitting commentary when I write some of my fiction.