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TITLE:
The little book of feminist saints / Julia Pierpont ; illustrated by Manjit Thapp.
Pub Date:
[2018]
ISBN:
9780399592744
Description:
xi, 189 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm
Contents:
Artemisia Gentileschi -- Michelle Obama -- Kanno Sugako -- Virginia Woolf -- Oprah -- Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon -- Forugh Farrokhzad -- Sappho -- Barbara Jordan -- Harriet Tubman -- Hypatia of Alexandria -- Yayoi Kusama -- Emmy Noether -- Gloria Steinem -- Sandra Day O'Connor -- Wangari Maathai -- Maya Angelou -- Kitty Cone -- Dolores Huerta -- Rachel Carson -- The Brontes -- Nina Simone -- Erma Bombeck -- Nellie Bly -- Phillis Wheatley -- Katharine Hepburn -- Bea Arthur -- Frances Perkins -- Amelia Earhart -- Mary Cassatt -- Simone de Beauvoir -- Dorothea Lange -- Isadora Duncan -- Sojourner Truth -- Josephine Baker -- Williams sisters -- Anne Frank -- Mirabal sisters -- Benazir Bhutto -- Helen Keller -- Frida Kahlo -- Malala Yousafzai -- Ann and Cecile Richards -- Ida B. Wells -- Sally Ride -- Bella Abzug -- Kasha Nabagesera -- Mary Edwards Walker -- Jin Xing -- Julia Child -- Madonna -- Mae West -- Marsha P. Johnson -- Gladys Elphick -- Marys Wollstonecraft and Shelley -- Maria Montessori -- Jane Addams -- Queen Elizabeth I -- Ruby Bridges -- Marie and Irene Curie -- Margaret Sanger -- Junko Tabei -- Dorothy Arzner -- Anna Politkovskaya -- The Night Witches -- Helen Hayes -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Hillary Clinton -- Lise Meitner -- Pussy Riot -- Lucretia Mott -- Juana Ines de la Cruz -- Audre Lorde -- Wilma Mankiller -- Billie Jean King -- Kara Walker -- Ada Lovelace -- Louisa May Alcott -- Shirley Chisholm -- The Grimke sisters -- Grace Hopper -- Emily Dickinson -- Ella Baker -- Jane Austen -- Faith Spotted Eagle -- Margaret Hamilton -- Louise Bourgeois -- Marlene Dietrich -- Your own feminist saint.
Abstract:
New York Times bestselling writer Julia Pierpont and up-and-coming artist Manjit Thapp tell vibrant, inspiring, and surprising stories of strength and progress by pairing short, lyrical biographies of secular "saints" with stunning full-color portraits. Some may be obvious: Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) wrote the first algorithm for a machine and is considered the first computer programmer. Some less so: Kanno Sugako (1881-1911) was an anarcho-feminist Japanese journalist who fought against gender oppression. Featuring a woman from 8th century BC and women fighting for social justice in 2017, women who lived in midtown Manhattan and a woman who lives in rural Uganda, this will be a book to offer as a gift to the girls and women in your life, but also one you'll want for yourself--because it's beautiful, because it's smart and edifying, and because it's a companion of sorts, a daily inspiration and delight.
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