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Feminist Femme Fatale
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items A strong list of women from every point in history. Trace female influence through war, music, tragedy and fate. Poems, Books, Songs have been written about women for centuries, some of these books ask why ? And who?
Sections
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POLITICAL/SCIENTIFIC
RULERS
RELIGIOUS/MYTHOLOGY
SHOWGIRL/FASHIONISTAS
POLITICAL/SCIENTIFIC
From government spies to crazy inventors, women have been filling in the blanks for far long than we imagined
Women in the Civil War: Go beyond the battlefield to uncover the spellbinding true story of four women--a socialite, a farmgirl, an abolitionist, and a soldier in disguise--who risked everything for their cause
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four... book by Karen Abbott
An enlightening linguistic journey through a thousand years of feminist language--and what we can learn from the vivid vocabulary that English once had for women's bodies, experiences, and sexuality So many of the words that we use to chronicle women...
Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of... book by Jenni Nuttall
When Mrs Pankhurst stormed the House of Commons with her crack squad of militant suffragettes in 1908, she wore on her hat a voluptuous purple feather. This is the intriguing story behind that feather.
Twelve years before the suffragette movement b...
Mrs Pankhurst's Purple Feather: Fashion, ...
RULERS
These are women who are often romanticized, who took masculinity head on but had their story rewritten. These books bring the truth closer to being in the spotlight
Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Shakespeare and Shaw put words in her mouth. Michelangelo, Tiepolo, and Elizabeth Taylor put a face to her name. Along the way, Cleopatra's supple per...
Cleopatra: A Life book by Stacy Schiff
Four women stood upon the crest of history: Katherine of Aragon's daughter, Mary; Anne Boleyn's daughter, Elizabeth; Mary, Queen of Scots; and Lady Jane Grey. But over the centuries, other exceptional women had struggled to push the boundaries of the...
She-Wolves book by Helen Castor
These 30 true stories of take-charge princesses from around the world and throughout history offer a different kind of bedtime story . . . Pop history meets a funny, feminist point-of-view in these illustrated tales of "royal terrors who make modern ...
Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories... book by Linda Rodríguez McRobbie
RELIGIOUS/MYTHOLOGY
These are women who have shaped our myths, our fables and our life lessons. Often referred without context or question. Who are they and why do you see them this way
Helen Castor tells afresh the gripping story of the peasant girl from Domremy who hears voices from God, leads the French army to victory, is burned at the stake for heresy, and eventually becomes a saint. But unlike the traditional narrative, a stor...
Joan of Arc: A History book by Helen Castor
As psychologically thrilling as it is historically seminal, The Witches is Stacy Schiff's account of this fantastical story--the first great American mystery unveiled fully for the first time by one of our most acclaimed historians.
The Witches: Salem, 1692 book by Stacy Schiff
Aphrodite was said to have been born from the sea, rising out of a froth of white foam. But long before the ancient Greeks conceived of this voluptuous blonde, she existed as an early spirit of fertility on the shores of Cyprus--and thousands of year...
Venus and Aphrodite book by Bettany Hughes
SHOWGIRL/FASHIONISTAS
These are the women who the spotlight clung to, who set trends, who were more than media training. What made them the it girl of their decades
Enter Gypsy Rose Lee, a strutting, bawdy, erudite stripper who possessed a gift for delivering exactly what America needed. With her superb narrative skills and eye for detail, Karen Abbott brings to life an era of ambition, glamour, struggle, and su...
American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The... book by Karen Abbott
In Coco Chanel, Justine Picardie peels away the layers of romance and myth surrounding the legend of Coco Chanel, revealing the true history of the incredible woman who shaped modern fashion and created an empire of haute couture. Picardie's unpreced...
Coco Chanel book by Justine Picardie