The big book of women's trivia - Alicia Alvrez

"Women's matters are anything but trivial." -Anon (who was a woman)The Big Book of Women's Trivia spans history, crosses cultures, ranges from the silly to the salacious to the truly useful and back again. Organized into ten chapters: Women and Their Wardrobes, The Body Beautiful, and Not So Ladies, Matters of Love, In the Ladies' Room, Ladies Look at the Animal Kingdom, Women Doing It for Themselves, Saintly Manifestations and Royal Subjects, Women's Sporting Life, Celebrity Sightings of the Female Variety, and ?nally, Final Feminine Facts You Absolutely Can't Live Without.A sneak preview: * Women outnumber men by ?ve to one in shoplifting convictions. * The very ?rst Artichoke Queen was Marilyn Monroe in 1947. * Diamonds didn't become a girl's best friend until the thirteenth century. Before that, they were for men only. * The ?rst human cannonball was a woman named Zazel, who was launched into the air through the use of a giant spring inside a cannon. * Researchers at Northwestern University want us to know that men change their minds two to three times more than women.The Big Book of Women's Trivia will teach ladies little known facts about the history, fame, fortunes, fashions, and ?ctions of the female species - enough to impress their mother and their boss, to win arguments with their boyfriends and husbands, and to generally know more about their fabulous female selves.