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Bloody brilliant women : the pioneers, revolutionaries and geniuses your history teacher forgot to mention /
By: Newman, Cathy.
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BookPublisher: London : William Collins, 2019Description: Paperback illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780008241674 (pbk.) :.Subject(s): Women -- Great Britain -- History | History | History | Great Britain -- HistoryDDC classification: 920 NEW Summary: In this freewheeling, feminist history of modern Britain Channel 4 journalist Cathy Newman explores the motivations of the women who played a crucial role in the dramatic transformations that took place in British women's lives from the mid-19th century onward. These were uncompromising women who seized - or created - opportunities for themselves and who refused to be bowed by tradition, convention, or their generation's hostile, entrenched views about gender. While a few of them are now household names, many more have faded into oblivion, their personal and collective achievements mere footnotes in the history we are told.
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In this freewheeling, feminist history of modern Britain Channel 4 journalist Cathy Newman explores the motivations of the women who played a crucial role in the dramatic transformations that took place in British women's lives from the mid-19th century onward. These were uncompromising women who seized - or created - opportunities for themselves and who refused to be bowed by tradition, convention, or their generation's hostile, entrenched views about gender. While a few of them are now household names, many more have faded into oblivion, their personal and collective achievements mere footnotes in the history we are told.