Significant Sisters

Significant Sisters

Margaret Forster

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Penguin Random House UK
Año de edición:
2004
ISBN:
9780099455578
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Eight women who changed the worldCaroline Norton * Elizabeth Blackwell * Florence Nightingale * Emily Davies * Josephine Butler * Elizabeth Cady Stanton * Margaret Sanger * Emma GoldmanSignificant Sisters traces the lives of eight women each of whom pioneered vital changes in the spheres of law education the professions morals or politics: the first woman doctor the pioneer of birth control a radical journalist and suffragists. Each forged her own particular brand of feminism yet all fought bravely to make real lasting difference to women’s lives and make us redefine our own notions of feminism today.

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