cam a22 4500 55140759X CHVBK 20200429054600.0 180924t20182018xxkaf||||b||| 001 0ceng|d 978-0-00-824171-1 (hbk.) 0-00-824171-6 (hbk.) 978-0-00-824170-4 (trade paperback) 0-00-824170-8 (trade paperback) (VAUD)991021207492502852 (EXLNZ-41BCULAUSA_NETWORK)991023531128202851 TOH UAB OCLCF RNV vdbcul DA28.7 .N496 2018 941/.0099 23 Newman Cathy aut Bloody brilliant women the pioneers, revolutionaries and geniuses your history teacher forgot to mention Cathy Newman London William Collins, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018 376 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations (some colour) 24 cm text txt unmediated n volume nc Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-330) and index. In this freewheeling, feminist history of modern Britain, Channel 4 journalist Cathy Newman explores the motivations of the women who played a crucial role in the dramatic transformations that took place in British women's lives from the mid-19th century onward. These were uncompromising women who seized - or created - opportunities for themselves and who refused to be bowed by tradition, convention, or their generation's hostile, entrenched views about gender. While a few of them are now household names, many more have faded into oblivion, their personal and collective achievements mere footnotes in the history we are told s1an rnv VAUD 100 1- Newman Cathy aut Metadata rights reserved vaud BK020000 XK020000 XK020000 VAUD bcur bcur RIA 10435 ENGLISH 810020020