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Author:

Miles, Rosalind, author.

Title:

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

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Publisher:

William Morrowan imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

xi, 415 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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.
Biographies.

Other Titles:

Rebel women

Notes:

"Originally published as Rebel women in the United Kingdom in 2020 by Virago." -- verso. Includes bibliographical references (pages 364-389) and index.

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.

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 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."--Amazon.com.

ISBN:

0062444034
9780062444035

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1233294270

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

YKPE532 -- Anamosa Library & Learning Center (Anamosa)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)