Rad Women Worldwide: 20 Mini-Posters

Schatz, Kate

ISBN 10: 1524759554 ISBN 13: 9781524759551

Publisher: Clarkson Potter, 2017

Synopsis

For holding high at your next protest march, gifting to a feminist friend, or hanging on your classroom or dorm room wall, these progressive posters based on the New York Times bestseller include 20 portraits--each with a powerful female on the front and her inspiring quote on the back. 

Rad Women Worldwide shared fresh, engaging, and amazing tales of perseverance and radical success through riveting biographies and cut-paper portraits. Now here is the art ready for hanging or framing. Measuring 7x11 inches--perfect for an 8x10-inch frame--these colorful portraits feature widely acclaimed (and also less known) heroines alike. 

The Rad Women include:
-Hatshepsut (The great female king who ruled Egypt peacefully for two decades) 
-Malala Yousafzi (The youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize) 
-Liv Arnesen and Ann Bancroft (Polar explorers and the first women to cross Antarctica)
-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Novelist and writer)
-Venus and Serena Williams (Tennis players and Olympic medalists) 
-Faith Bandler (Activist and Advocate for Indigenous Australians)
-Kalpana Chawla (First Indian woman in space)
-Policarpa "La Pola" Salavarrieta (Revolutionary hero of Colombian independence)
-Madres de la Plaza de Mayo (A group of mothers and grandmothers who march weekly in honor of -their missing sons and daughters)
-Nanny of the Maroons (National hero of Jamaica)
-Frida Kahlo (Painter)
-Queen Liliuokalani (First and final Queen of the Kingdom of Hawaii)
-Junko Tabei (First woman to climb Mt. Everest)
-Miriam Makeba (South African singer also known as "Mama Africa")
-Wangari Maathai (Nobel Prize winning environmental activist)

About this title

About the Author:

KATE SCHATZ is a feminist writer, educator, editor, and the author of the 33 1/3 book Rid of Me: A Story. She is the co-founder and leader of Solidarity Sundays, a nationwide network of feminist activist groups committed to resistance and justice. 

MIRIAM KLEIN STAHL is an artist, educator, and activist. They are the author and illustrator, respectively, of the bestselling Rad Women series, which includes Rad American Women A-Z, Rad Women Worldwide, Rad Women A-Z postcards, and My Rad Life: A Journal. They both live in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

Frida Kahlo
July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954 (Coyoacán, Mexico)

“I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.”
 
It seems like everyone today knows who Frida Kahlo is, but that wasn’t always the case. Like so many women artists throughout history, Frida didn’t gain the recognition she deserved until many years after her death. When she died in 1954, the New York Times obituary headline read “Frida Kahlo, Artist, Diego Rivera’s Wife.” This was how she was known for a long time: as the strange wife of famous muralist Diego Rivera. She’s now considered one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.

Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón was born just before the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution. She lived in La Casa Azul, a small house that her father painted blue. When she was six she came down with polio, which left her right leg permanently disfigured. To help it heal, her father encouraged her to exercise and play sports, but she always had a prominent limp.

Frida didn’t plan to be an artist—she wanted to be a doctor, and she studied medicine at one of Mexico’s finest schools. Everything changed when she was in a bus accident at age 18. She was severely injured and spent months in a full-body cast. Isolated and in pain, she began to paint. Her mother made her an easel she could use while lying down, and her father shared his oil paints. She experimented with bright colors that reminded her of traditional Mexican folk art. The small self-portraits that she created helped her process her traumatic accident.

Frida eventually showed four of her pieces to the artist Diego Rivera, whom she adored. “You’ve got talent,” he told her, and it was true. Her paintings were deeply personal, yet they combined elements of Mexican art, classical European painting, and newer Surrealist works. She and Diego eventually married and became part of a thriving Mexican art scene. It was a male-dominated scene but Frida also encountered women like singer Chavela Vargas, muralist Fanny Rabel, and photographer Lola Alvarez Bravo (the first and only person to exhibit Frida’s paintings in Mexico during her lifetime).

Frida remained relatively obscure until the 1980s, when a biography about her got people’s attention. Feminist and Latina artists began to celebrate her work, and she became a cultural icon, now more well known than Diego. Frida’s life was painful, and she created over 140 paintings that reflected it. Unlike many other artists at the time, Frida didn’t paint landscapes or abstract shapes: she painted her real, pained self. She celebrated her flaws, her fears, her country, and her desires and she did it beautifully.

About this edition

• Publisher: Clarkson Potter
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1524759554
• ISBN 13: 9781524759551
• Binding: Novelty Book
• Number of pages: 20
• Illustrator: Stahl Miriam Klein