Imprint: Vintage
Published: 07/10/2004
ISBN: 9780099455578
Length: 368 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 23mm x 129mm
Weight: 256g
RRP: £12.99
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.
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 07/10/2004
ISBN: 9780099455578
Length: 368 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 23mm x 129mm
Weight: 256g
RRP: £12.99
Margaret Forster is alive to the debt we owe to such champions, who made our world so much more hospitable to women
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
Humane, humorous and perceptive
Inspiring