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.
