Significant Sisters: The Grassroots of Active Feminism, 1839-1939 - Softcover

Forster, Margaret

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099455579 ISBN 13: 9780099455578

Publisher: Vintage, 2004

Synopsis

Eight women who changed the world

Caroline Norton * Elizabeth Blackwell * Florence Nightingale * Emily Davies * Josephine Butler * Elizabeth Cady Stanton * Margaret Sanger * Emma Goldman

Significant Sisters traces the lives of eight women, each of whom pioneered vital changes in the spheres of law, education, the professions, morals or politics: the first woman doctor, the pioneer of birth control, a radical journalist, and suffragists. Each forged her own particular brand of feminism, yet all fought bravely to make real, lasting difference to women's lives, and make us redefine our own notions of feminism today.

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Review:

"Margaret Forster is alive to the debt we owe to such champions, who made our world so much more hospitable to women" (Marina Warner Sunday Times)

"Margaret Forster writes history with a novelist's eye for details and is interested in the contradictions and conflicts in her heroines' attitudes to their own femininity" (A. S. Byatt The Times)

"Humane, humorous and perceptive" (Evening Standard)

"Inspiring" (Times Literary Supplement)

Book Description:

'A compulsively readable account' A. S. Byatt, The Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0099455579
• ISBN 13: 9780099455578
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368