Hidden Heroines

Hidden Heroines
Author: Maggie Andrews
Publisher: The Crowood Press
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2018-10-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 0719827620

The story of the struggle for women's suffrage is not just that of the Pankhursts and Emily Davison. Thousands of others were involved in peaceful protest and sometimes more militant activity and they included women from all walks of life. This book presents the lives of forty-eight less well-known women who tirelessly campaigned for the vote, from all parts of Great Britain and Ireland and from all walks of life. They were the hidden heroines who paved the way for women to gain greater equality in Britain. Fully illustrated with 52 black and white photographs.

Warrior Women

Warrior Women
Author: Jeannine Davis-Kimball
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2003-02-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780446679831

Davis-Kimball weaves science, mythology and mystical cultures into a bold new historical tapestry of female warriors, heroines and leaders who have been left out of the history books-- until now.

Undreamed Shores

Undreamed Shores
Author: Frances Larson
Publisher: Granta Books
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2021-03-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1783783338

In the first decades of the 20th century, five women - Katherine Routledge, Maria Czaplicka, Winifred Blackman, Beatrice Blackwood and Barbara Freire-Marreco - arrived at Oxford to take the newly created Masters in Anthropology. Though their circumstances differed radically, all were intent on visiting and studying remote communities a world away from their own. Through their work, they resisted the prejudices of the male establishment, proving that women could be explorers and scientists, too. In the wastes of Siberia; in the villages and pueblos of the Nile and New Mexico; on Easter Island; and in the uncharted interior of New Guinea, they found new freedoms - yet when they returned to England, loss, madness and self-doubt awaited them. Frances Larson's masterful group biography is a revelatory portrait of five hidden heroines of British scholarship.

Scotland's Hidden Harlots & Heroines

Scotland's Hidden Harlots & Heroines
Author: Annie Harrower-Gray
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2014-03-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1473834708

Rediscover Scottish history through the eyes of its most unique and outspoken women in this volume of entertaining tales from the eighteenth century to the twentieth. Annie Harrower-Gray introduces readers to three centuries of rebellious, innovative, and downright scandalous Scottish women. The whole of society appears, from ordinary laborers, prostitutes and factory hands to their more celebrated sisters and even witches, bodysnatchers, and female Jacobites. The tales of these colorful characters are freshly researched and engagingly told. Step inside the boudoirs of Edinburgh’s ladies of pleasure, whose civilized manners so confused one church minister that he ‘accidentally’ took tea in a brothel. Creep into the graveyard with Helen Torrance and Jean Lapiq, convicted of bodysnatching half a century before Burke and Hare. Uncover the murky history of Scotland’s last witch Helen Duncan, whose eerily accurate wartime predictions led to her imprisonment. This book offers an exciting and erudite voyage through the social history of Scotland.

Hidden Figures

Hidden Figures
Author: Margot Lee Shetterly
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 43
Release: 2018-05-08
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0062881884

Based on the New York Times bestselling book and the Academy Award–nominated movie, author Margot Lee Shetterly and Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award winner Laura Freeman bring the incredibly inspiring true story of four black women who helped NASA launch men into space to picture book readers! Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden were good at math…really good. They participated in some of NASA's greatest successes, like providing the calculations for America's first journeys into space. And they did so during a time when being black and a woman limited what they could do. But they worked hard. They persisted. And they used their genius minds to change the world. In this beautifully illustrated picture book edition, we explore the story of four female African American mathematicians at NASA, known as "colored computers," and how they overcame gender and racial barriers to succeed in a highly challenging STEM-based career. "Finally, the extraordinary lives of four African American women who helped NASA put the first men in space is available for picture book readers," proclaims Brightly in their article "18 Must-Read Picture Books of 2018." "Will inspire girls and boys alike to love math, believe in themselves, and reach for the stars."

Women Involved

Women Involved
Author: American Revolution Bicentennial Administration
Publisher:
Total Pages: 28
Release: 1976
Genre: American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976
ISBN:

Women and Evacuation in the Second World War

Women and Evacuation in the Second World War
Author: Maggie Andrews
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2019-08-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1441176438

Groups of young evacuees, standing on railway stations with gas masks and cardboard suitcases have become an iconic image of wartime Britain, but their histories have eclipsed those of women whose domestic lives were affected. This book explores the effects of this unparalleled interference in the domestic lives of women, looking at the impact on everyday experience and on ideas of femininity, domesticity and motherhood. Maggie Andrews argues that wartime evacuation is important for understanding the experience and the contested meanings of domesticity and motherhood in the 20th century. As this book shows, evacuation represents a significant and unrecognised area of women's war work, and precipitated the rise of competing public discourses about domestic labour and motherhood.

The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today′s World

The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today′s World
Author: Mary Zeiss Stange
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 1376
Release: 2013-01-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1452270376

This e-only volume expands and updates the original 4-volume Encyclopedia of Women in Today′s World (2011), offering a wide range of new entries and new multimedia content. The entries reflect such developments as the Arab Spring that brought women′s issues in the Islamic world into sharp relief, the domination of female athletes among medal winners at the London 2012 Olympics, nine more women joining the ranks of democratically elected heads of state, and much more. The 475 articles in this e-only update (accompanied by photos and video clips) supplement the themes established in the original edition, providing a vibrant collection of entries dealing with contemporary women′s issues around the world.

Women in Antiquity

Women in Antiquity
Author: Sarah Milledge Nelson
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2007-03-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0759113904

Archaeology is one of our most powerful sources of new information about the past, about the lives of our ancient and not-so-ancient ancestors. The contributors to Women in Antiquity consider the theoretical problems involved in discerning what the archaeological evidence tells us about gender roles in antiquity. The book includes chapters on the history of gender research, historical texts, mortuary analysis, household remains, hierarchy, and ethnoarchaeology, with each chapter teasing out the inherent difficulty in interpreting ancient evidence as well as the promise of new understanding. Women in Antiquity offers a fresh, accessible account of how we might grasp the ways in which sexual roles and identities shaped the past.