Book World: Meet the forgotten rebels and quiet revolutionaries of women s history
Lisa Birnbach, The Washington Post
March 5, 2021
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By Rosalind Miles
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Gather round, sisters, to read tales of female rebels and pioneers from earliest days to Stormy Daniels. Our leader (leadress? I think not), Rosalind Miles, a woke 78-year-old British novelist and historian, takes us through tranches of lessons about our forebears in a brisk, almost impatient way - she has a lot of material to get through and only so many pages in The Women s History of the Modern World: How Radicals, Rebels, and Everywomen Revolutionized the Last 200 Years. The tranches have sparky titles - Turning the Wheel, One-Way Pendulum, Some Like It Cold and The Longest March - and they are organized chronologically, mostly, and by category.
Women's efforts were often ridiculed, or ignored, which explains why they’ve had to wage war for their equality, too. Helping amplify their voices is “The Women’s History of the Modern World: How Radicals, Rebels, and Everywomen Revolutionized the Last 200 Years.”