A Short History of Women

A Short History of Women
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 257
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ISBN-10 : 9781416594987
ISBN-13 : 1416594981
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis A Short History of Women by : Kate Walbert

Inspired by a suffragist ancestor who starved herself to promote the integration of Cambridge University, Evie refuses to marry and Dorothy defies a ban on photographing the bodies of her dead Iraq War soldier sons, a choice that embarrasses Dorothy's daughters.

A Short History of Women

A Short History of Women
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 272
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ISBN-10 : 9781439100547
ISBN-13 : 1439100543
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis A Short History of Women by : Kate Walbert

NOMINATED FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE A profoundly moving portrait of the complicated legacies of mothers and daughters, A Short History of Women chronicles five generations of women from the close of the nineteenth century through the early years of the twenty-first. Beginning in 1914 at the deathbed of Dorothy Trevor Townsend, a suffragette who starves herself for the cause, the novel traces the echoes of her choice in the stories of her descendants—a brilliant daughter who tries to escape the burden of her mother’s infamy; a granddaughter who chooses a conventional path, only to find herself disillusioned; a great-granddaughter who wryly articulates the free-floating anxiety of post-9/11 Manhattan. In a kaleidoscope of characters and with a richness of imagery, emotion, and wit, A Short History of Women is a thought-provoking and vividly original narrative that crisscrosses a century—a book for "any woman who has ever struggled to find her own voice; to make sense of being a mother, wife, daughter, and lover" (Associated Press).

A Short History of Queer Women

A Short History of Queer Women
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 158
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ISBN-10 : 9780861542857
ISBN-13 : 0861542851
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis A Short History of Queer Women by : Kirsty Loehr

No, they weren’t ‘just friends’! Queer women have been written out of history since, well, forever. ‘But historians famously care about women!’, said no one. From Anne Bonny and Mary Read who sailed the seas together disguised as pirates, to US football captain Megan Rapinoe declaring ‘You can’t win a championship without gays on your team’, via countless literary salons and tuxedos, A Short History of Queer Women sets the record straight on women who have loved other women through the ages. Who says lesbians can’t be funny?

A Short History of Women

A Short History of Women
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 408
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ISBN-10 : UVA:X000741237
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis A Short History of Women by : John Langdon-Davies

Women's Suffrage

Women's Suffrage
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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages : 70
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ISBN-10 : 9783752398663
ISBN-13 : 3752398663
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis Women's Suffrage by : Millicent Garrett Fawcett

Reproduction of the original: Women's Suffrage by Millicent Garrett Fawcett

American Women's History

American Women's History
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 160
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ISBN-10 : 9780199328338
ISBN-13 : 0199328331
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis American Women's History by : Susan Ware

What does American history look like with women at the center of the story? From Pocahantas to military women serving in the Iraqi war, this Very Short Introduction chronicles the contributions that women have made to the American experience from a multicultural perspective that emphasizes how gender shapes women's--and men's--lives.

A Brief History of Feminism

A Brief History of Feminism
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 89
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ISBN-10 : 9780262548670
ISBN-13 : 0262548674
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis A Brief History of Feminism by : Patu

An engaging illustrated history of feminism from antiquity through third-wave feminism, featuring Sappho, Mary Magdalene, Mary Wollstonecraft, Sojourner Truth, Simone de Beauvoir, and many others. The history of feminism? The right to vote, Susan B. Anthony, Gloria Steinem, white pantsuits? Oh, but there's so much more. And we need to know about it, especially now. In pithy text and pithier comics, A Brief History of Feminism engages us, educates us, makes us laugh, and makes us angry. It begins with antiquity and the early days of Judeo-Christianity. (Mary Magdalene questions the maleness of Jesus's inner circle: “People will end up getting the notion you don't want women to be priests.” Jesus: “Really, Mary, do you always have to be so negative?”) It continues through the Middle Ages, the Early Modern period, and the Enlightenment (“Liberty, equality, fraternity!” “But fraternity means brotherhood!”). It covers the beginnings of an organized women's movement in the nineteenth century, second-wave Feminism, queer feminism, and third-wave Feminism. Along the way, we learn about important figures: Olympe de Gouges, author of the “Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen” (guillotined by Robespierre); Flora Tristan, who linked the oppression of women and the oppression of the proletariat before Marx and Engels set pen to paper; and the poet Audre Lorde, who pointed to the racial obliviousness of mainstream feminism in the 1970s and 1980s. We learn about bourgeois and working-class issues, and the angry racism of some American feminists when black men got the vote before women did. We see God as a long-bearded old man emerging from a cloud (and once, as a woman with her hair in curlers). And we learn the story so far of a history that is still being written.

A Short History of Women

A Short History of Women
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:1415120330
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A Short History of the Future

A Short History of the Future
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Total Pages : 312
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015014312196
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Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis A Short History of the Future by : John Langdon-Davies