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A fierce and clever feminist retelling of humanity's past - a herstory of the universe - illustrated and written by acclaimed New Yorker cartoonist Marisa Acocella.For centuries, history has been "written about a bunch of men by a bunch of men." In The Big SHE-Bang, Marisa Acocella challenges our understanding of humanity's past with her own Big Book. In this gloriously vibrant, clever and hilarious alternate herstory of the world, the true leaders, makers, and doers who have been omitted - the women - at last claim their place. Narrated by God the Mother, The Big She Bang celebrates the "shevolutionaries," from Eve to the Marys - Virgin Mother and Magdalene - from Persephone, Kali, Isis, Delilah to RBG, Gloria, and Tarana. Acocella brilliantly illuminates the way women have been erased, vilified, and dominated across eons - blamed for original sin, destruction, betrayals, witchery, and other assorted (and false) evils and ills.