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Author
Publisher
Vintage Digital
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
?All the history you need to understand why you're so furious, angry and still hopeful about being a woman now? Caitlin Moran Feminism?s success is down to complicated, contradictory, imperfect women, who fought each other as well as fighting for equal rights. Helen Lewis argues that too many of these pioneers have been whitewashed or forgotten in our modern search for feel-good, inspirational heroines. It?s time to reclaim the history of feminism...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
I was 10 years old when I came across Boadicea, and she became the first woman to make me realise that the designated future of a girl born in 1950 - to be sweet, domesticated, undemanding and super feminine - was not always realistic. Boadicea battled the Romans. Nancy Astor fought in Parliament. Emmeline Pankhurst campaigned for female suffrage. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson became a pioneering physician in a man?s profession. Mary Quant revolutionised...
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
With a radical and inclusive approach to history, Modern HERstory profiles and celebrates seventy women and nonbinary champions of progressive social change in a bold, colorful, illustrated format for all ages. Despite making huge contributions to the liberation movements of the last century and today, all of these trailblazers come from backgrounds and communities that are traditionally overlooked and under-celebrated: not just women, but people...
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