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  • The Women's History of the Modern World: How Radicals, Rebels, and Everywomen Revolutionized the Last 200 Years by Rosalind Miles book cover
  • The Women's History of the Modern World: How Radicals, Rebels, and Everywomen Revolutionized the Last 200 Years by Rosalind Miles book cover
  • The Women's History of the Modern World: How Radicals, Rebels, and Everywomen Revolutionized the Last 200 Years by Rosalind Miles book cover
  • The Women's History of the Modern World: How Radicals, Rebels, and Everywomen Revolutionized the Last 200 Years by Rosalind Miles book cover
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The Women's History of the Modern World: How Radicals, Rebels, and Everywomen Revolutionized the Last 200 Years

by Rosalind Miles

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Women reshaping the modern era

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Women reshaping the modern era

Rosalind Miles surveys women’s history from the Enlightenment and French Revolution through the #MeToo movement, tracing milestones in feminist organizing and women’s growing social, economic, and political influence. The book brings together figures from public leadership, activism, science, literature, the arts, sport, business, and religion—including both well-known names and less familiar pioneers. Its broad cast frames the past two centuries as a history shaped across many fields, not only through formal politics or a handful of celebrated leaders.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers seeking a broad popular history of women’s contributions across the modern era
  • Those interested in feminist movements and women’s changing social, economic, and political roles
  • Readers looking for an overview spanning politics, science, literature, the arts, and other fields

Themes

Women’s historyFeminist movementsSocial and political changeWomen’s achievements across fields

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Book overview

The
internationally bestselling author of Who Cooked the Last Supper? presents a wickedly witty and very current
history of the extraordinary female rebels, reactionaries, and trailblazers
who left their mark on history from the French Revolution up to the present
day.

 

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 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.

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