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title = "Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings - Linda Rodríguez McRobbie"
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date = 2018-06-16
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tags = ["books", "linda rodriguez mcrobbie", "reviews", "history", "4 stars"]
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[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36297174-princesses-behaving-badly):
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One book that came with a Humble Bundle.
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Although the title may sound a bit of feminist, the book has nothing about it.
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Surely, it breaks the mold of “princesses are nice and quiet and beautiful and
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a man saves them in the end”, but some of the examples are not role models.
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Princesses that were crazy. Princesses that were princesses just because they
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lied about it. Princesses that acted more like men. Sadly, there are were few
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Princess (later queen) Victoria, a princess that proved her worth.
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Still, is a curious history book.
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