Items related to Modern Women: 52 Pioneers

Modern Women: 52 Pioneers - Hardcover

Cochrane, Kira

  • 4.04 out of 5 stars
    165 ratings by Goodreads
 
9780711237896: Modern Women: 52 Pioneers

Synopsis

Modern Women is a celebration of influential and inspiring women who have changed the world through their lives, work and actions.

From suffragettes to scientists, activists to artists, politicians to pilots and writers to riot grrrls, the women included have all paved the way for gender equality in their own indomitable way.

Find out about extraordinary women including writer and teacher Maya Angelou, computer scientist Ada Lovelace, abolitionist Harriet Tubman, film star Katharine Hepburn and pioneering musician Björk. Their lives also enable bigger stories to be told: the suffrage movement with Sophia Duleep Singh; the civil rights struggle and Audre Lorde; advances in science made by Rosalind Franklin; the push for artistic freedom in the work of Frida Kahlo and Louise Bourgeois; and the importance of equality in all sections of society advocated by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
 

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

Kira Cochrane is Executive Editor, Features at the Guardian, and was previously a features writer for the paper, and women’s editor from 2006-2010. She is author of the novels The Naked Season and Escape Routes for Beginners, edited the anthology Women of the Revolution, and co-edited Cupcakes and Kalashnikovs, as well as writing the short book All the Rebel Women, an account of the fourth wave of feminism. She lives in London.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9780711255159: Modern Women: 52 Pioneers who changed the World

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  0711255156 ISBN 13:  9780711255159
Publisher: Aurum Press, 2021
Softcover