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I was 10 years old when I came across Boadicea, and she became the first woman to make me realise that the designated future of a girl born in 1950 - to be sweet, domesticated, undemanding and super feminine - was not always realistic.Boadicea battled the Romans. Nancy Astor fought in Parliament. Emmeline Pankhurst campaigned for female suffrage. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson became a pioneering physician in a man's profession. Mary Quant revolutionised the fashion industry.Britain has traditionally been defined by its conflicts, its conquests, its men and its monarchs. It's high time that it was defined by its women. In this unique history, Jenni Murray tells the stories of 21 women who refused to succumb to the established norms of society, whose lives embodied hope and change: famous queens, forgotten visionaries, great artists and trailblazing politicians - all pushed back boundaries and revolutionised our world. In Murray's hands their stories are enthralling and beguiling; they have the power to inspire us once again.… (més)
Picks up some really interesting stories and ideas. Stronger on the later, more detailed stories, in particular the suffragettes, while the opening Boudicca (or Boadicea, as Murray insists on calling her) is the weakest. Definitely worth reading, the stories are told in a good engaging style and nice bite sized chapters ( )
Enjoyed listening to this - short chapters on various women - a few I had not heard of. It's not going to light up the world but was a great book to listen to whilst getting to sleep. ( )
I read this collection of 21 essays on British women as a kind of feminist advent calendar, reading one a day most days in December. They were interesting and I learnt quite a bit, but the writing sometimes felt aimed at a younger audience. ( )
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" In an anti-male era, it's important to remember that men built the planes, fought the wars, laid the railroad tracks, invented the cars, built the hospitals, invented the medicines and sailed the ships that made it all happen. Steve Biddulph "Raising Boys".
"Rubbish!" Jenni Murray
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For all the young people who need to know
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It was Thomas Carlyle, circa 1840, who said, "The history of the world is but the biography of great men", and, as a girl growing up in the 1950s and '60s, his philosophy was pretty much what I was taught and what I believed
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I was 10 years old when I came across Boadicea, and she became the first woman to make me realise that the designated future of a girl born in 1950 - to be sweet, domesticated, undemanding and super feminine - was not always realistic.Boadicea battled the Romans. Nancy Astor fought in Parliament. Emmeline Pankhurst campaigned for female suffrage. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson became a pioneering physician in a man's profession. Mary Quant revolutionised the fashion industry.Britain has traditionally been defined by its conflicts, its conquests, its men and its monarchs. It's high time that it was defined by its women. In this unique history, Jenni Murray tells the stories of 21 women who refused to succumb to the established norms of society, whose lives embodied hope and change: famous queens, forgotten visionaries, great artists and trailblazing politicians - all pushed back boundaries and revolutionised our world. In Murray's hands their stories are enthralling and beguiling; they have the power to inspire us once again.
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