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The women's history of the modern world : how radicals, rebels, and everywomen revolutionized the last 200 years  Cover Image Book Book

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

Miles, Rosalind, (author.).

Summary:

Now is the time for a new women's history--for the famous, infamous, and unsung women to get their due--from the Enlightenment 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 writer/intellectuals 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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780062444035 (trade paperback)
  • Physical Description: xi, 415 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
  • Edition: First U.S. edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2021]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally published under the title Rebel women : the renegades, viragos and heroines who changed the world--from the French Revolution to today. London : Virago, 2020.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject: Women revolutionaries > History > 19th century.
Women revolutionaries > History > 20th century.
Women > History > 19th century.
Women > History > 20th century.
Women > Social conditions > 19th century.
Women > Social conditions > 20th century.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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