Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries

How Women (Also) Built the World

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Beschreibung

<p><b>History, completed.<br><br>'A must-have for history lovers and feminists' - <i>Glamour</i></b><br><br><b>Moving, illuminating and deeply personal, <i>Warrior Queens &amp; Quiet Revolutionaries</i> is for anyone who has ever questioned how history is made.</b><br><br>In this alternative and inspiring history, Kate Mosse shines a light on nearly 1,000 women from across the globe whose names and achievements deserve to be celebrated, not forgotten:</p><ul><li>Rachel Carson, mother of the modern environmental movement</li><li>Ethel Smyth, unheralded British composer and virtuoso</li><li>Anne Bonny, legendary eighteenth-century pirate and rogue</li><li>Pauli Murray, ground-breaking US civil rights activist and lawyer</li><li>Sophia Jex-Blake, pioneering nineteenth-century doctor</li><li>Doria Shafik, Egyptian poet and women's liberation leader</li><li>Cornelia Sorabji, trailblazing Indian women's rights campaigner</li><li>Shirley Chisholm, the first female US presidential candidate</li></ul><p>And as she researches the lives of these ground-breaking women, Kate embarks on a detective story to uncover a forgotten literary superstar in her own family, reflecting the desire of so many people to trace their own roots . . .<br><br><b>'Excellent . . . Bursting with extraordinary women' - Anita Anand, broadcaster and author of <i>The Patient Assassin</i></b><br><br><b>'A spectacular work of synthesis, scholarship and love' - Kate Williams, historian and author of <i>Rival Queens</i><br><br>'A powerful panorama of the extraordinary achievements of a wonderful cast of women - both famous and hidden - down the millennia' - Jonathan Phillips, historian and author of <i>The Life &amp; Legend of the Sultan Saladin</i></b></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781529092202

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

233 x 150 x 33 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Verlag / Hersteller

Macmillan Publishers Int Ltd - MDL