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The women's history of the modern world, how radicals, rebels, and everywomen revolutionized the last 200 years /, Rosalind Miles

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The women's history of the modern world, how radicals, rebels, and everywomen revolutionized the last 200 years /, Rosalind Miles

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The women's history of the modern world

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

1159800906

Responsibility statement

Rosalind Miles

Sub title

how radicals, rebels, and everywomen revolutionized the last 200 years /

Summary

A Paperback Original The internationally bestselling author of Who Cooked the Last Supper'The Women's History of the World presents a wickedly witty and very current history of the extraordinary female rebels, reactionaries, and trailblazers who left their mark on history from the French Revolution up to the present day. Now is the time for a new women's history'for the famous, infamous, and unsung women to get their due'from the Enlightenmen to the #MeToo movement. Recording the important milestones in the birth of the modern feminist movement and the rise of women into greater social, economic, and political power, Miles takes us through through a colorful pageant of astonishing women, from heads of state like Empress Cixi, Eugenia Charles, Indira Gandhi, Jacinda Ardern, and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to political rainmakers Kate Sheppard, Carrie Chapman Catt, Anna Stout, Dorothy Height, Shirley Chisholm, Winnie Mandela, STEM powerhouses Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Rosalind Franklin, Sophia Kovalevskaya, Marie Curie, and Ada Lovelace, revolutionaries Olympe de Gouges, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Patyegarang, and writerntellectuals Mary Wollstonecraft, Simon de Beauvoir, Elaine Morgan, and Germaine Greer. Women in the arts, women in sports, women in business, women in religion, women in politics'this is a one-stop roundup of the tremendous progress women have made in the modern era. A testimony to how women have persisted'and excelled'this is a smart and stylish popular history for all readers

Table Of Contents

Turning the wheel. Rights-- for women? ; New worlds and old ways ; All change -- One-way pendulum. Women who dared ; Pearls beyond price ; Footprints of blood -- Some like it cold. Iron curtains and ideal homes ; Is this all? ; Room at the top -- The longest march. Mass hysteria ; Our bodies, our selves ; The least revolution -- The women's manifesto for equality

Target audience

adult

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