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The Women’s History of the Modern World: How Radicals, Rebels, and Everywomen Revolutionized the Last 200 Years
Bottom of the pile
23
/100
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Readers
28/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
Rosalind Miles
Publisher:
William Morrow Paperbacks
Date:
February 2, 2021
Originally published as Rebel women: the renegades, viragos and heroines who changed the world - from the French Revolution to today in the United Kingdom by Virago.
What The Reviewers Say
Miles’s tone swings all this speed-herstory along, with a giant helping of feminist theory. On the book goes, finding daring women of all kinds. Miles takes on not just the patriarchy but the phallusy as well.
The Women’s History of the Modern World revolves around certain women heroes, ‘every one in search of an identity, a new life, and a means to throw off the chains of the past.
Novelist and historian Miles spotlights 'rebel women' from the past two centuries in this brisk and freewheeling history.
English novelist and journalist Miles celebrates women’s achievements—some worthy and others dubious—from the French Revolution to the age of #MeToo.
