The reader realizes that the cartoonist lays the punch of satire at the very epigraph as they start leafing through the sexism Darwin celebrated in his “intellectual” writings to the “Restless Genius” of Rousseau who believed “girls need to be thwarted from an early age, so that their natural role in pleasing men would come more naturally to them. Fleming starts her investigation, with her eye of scrutiny. The book starts with the motto of the Royal Society: “Take Nobody’s word for it.” This is followed by a cartoon of a womyn who seems to be trapped in a magnifying glass held by a hand on a blank white paper. One of the leading feminist cartoonists, Jacky Fleming, explores the reasons and causes of this erasure in her comic book The Trouble With Women, written with a satire to draw every type of reader to think, how did we end up not noticing the blot in “our” his-story before? You will never look at history in the same way again.When we open our history books, how often do we come across womyn? Even when we dissect the word, His-story, it cracks up the other half who has never been asked to tell Her-story, let alone be told as one. 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'. There isn't a man, woman, or child who wouldn't benefit from spending time with this one.' (India Knight, The Sunday Times), 'A brilliantly witty book of cartoons, it reveals some of our greatest thinkers' baffling theories about women. There isn't a man, woman, or child who wouldn't benefit from spending time with this one.' (India Knight, The Sunday Times), 'This book is savagely funny and wonderfully constructed.

And oh my god, it does it so very well, text and cartoons working perfectly together here-I had to pause my reading frequently because I was laughing too much to continue to the next page.' (Joe Gordon, Forbidden Planet), 'This book is savagely funny and wonderfully constructed. 'This book is an utter delight-it does something I always admire, making very serious points but doing so through the medium of humor and satire.

The Trouble With Women by Jacky Fleming