The Women's History of the Modern World: How Radicals, Rebels, and Everywomen Revolutionized the Last 200 Years Paperback – February 2, 2021

The internationally bestselling author of Who Cooked the Last Supper? presents a wickedly witty and very current history of the extraordinary female rebels, reactionaries, and trailblazers who left their mark on history from the French Revolution up to the present day. Nowis the time for a new women’s history—for the famous, infamous, and unsungwomen to get their due—from the Enlightenment to the #MeToo movement.Recording the important milestones in the birth of the modernfeminist movement and the rise of women into greater social, economic, andpolitical power, Miles takes us through through a colorful pageant ofastonishing women, from heads of state like Empress Cixi, Eugenia Charles,Indira Gandhi, Jacinda Ardern, and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to politicalrainmakers Kate Sheppard, Carrie Chapman Catt, Anna Stout, Dorothy Height,Shirley Chisholm, Winnie Mandela, STEM powerhouses Jocelyn Bell Burnell,Rosalind Franklin, Sophia Kovalevskaya, Marie Curie, and Ada Lovelace, revolutionaries Olympe de Gouges, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Patyegarang, and writer/intellectualsMary Wollstonecraft, Simon de Beauvoir, Elaine Morgan, and Germaine Greer. Womenin the arts, women in sports, women in business, women in religion, women inpolitics—this is a one-stop roundup of the tremendous progress women have madein the modern era.A testimony to how women have persisted—and excelled—this is asmart and stylish popular history for all readers. Read more