Rent The Women's History of the Modern World: How Radicals, Rebels, and Everywomen Revolutionized the Last 200 Years

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Now is the time for a new women's history-for the famous, infamous, and unsung women to get their due-from the French Revolution to the #MeToo movement. Recording the important milestones during the birth of the modern feminist movement and the rise of women into greater social, economic, and political power, Rosalind Miles takes us through a spectacular pageant of astonishing women, from heads of state like Dowager Empress Cixi, Eugenia Charles, Indira Gandhi, Jacinda Ardern, and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to political trailblazers Kate Sheppard, Carrie Chapman Catt, Anna Stout, Dorothy Height, Shirley Chisholm, and Winnie Mandela; STEM powerhouses Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Rosalind Franklin, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Marie Curie, and Ada Lovelace; revolutionaries Olympe de Gouges, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, and Patyegarang; and writers and intellectuals, including Mary Wollstonecraft, Simone de Beauvoir, Elaine Morgan, and Germaine Greer. Women in the arts, women in sports, women in business, women in religion, women in politics-this book is a one-stop roundup of the tremendous progress women have made over the last 200 years. A testimony to how women have persisted-and excelled-The Women's History of the Modern World is a smart and stylish popular history for all readers.

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