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xv, 223 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
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Uppity women of ancient times, ca. 2500 B.C. -- A.D. 450 -- Uppity women of medieval times, ca. A.D. 450 -- 1450 -- Uppity women of renaissance times, 1450-1750 -- Uppity women of the new world, late 1500s-1899. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-214) and index. |
| Summary |
Since ancient times, irrepressible women have broken all kinds of barriers. They ruled. They invented. They cured people. They killed people. They ran cities and businesses. The won races, athletic and political. They explored. They bankrolled explorers. They even bankrolled religions. Almost every organized religion, from Christianity to Buddhism to Quaker, has gotten off the ground thanks to the hard work and cold cash of women! |
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Most traditional histories written by men ignore, obscure, or erase the role of women, especially those who challenge the status quo. But the evidence of their achievements exists everywhere: in writings, coins, artifacts, graffiti, music, portraits, legal transcripts, love notes, and hate mail. For more than twenty years, Vicki León has been examining this evidence, chasing clues however faint and unconventional, and reporting her findings in numerous books, including the delightful four volume Uppity Women series. |
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4,000 Years of Uppity Women features the best of that series, chosen by León herself. It focuses not on legendary goddesses or literary characters but on real women (though many of them did become the subjects of poems, plays, and stories). |
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Women -- History -- To 500.
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Women -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500.
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Women -- History -- Renaissance, 1450-1600.
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Women colonists -- Biography.
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Women explorers -- Biography.
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Women -- Biography.
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Women -- Biography.
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Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
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Women colonists. (OCoLC)fst01177504
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Women explorers. (OCoLC)fst01177666
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Women -- Middle Ages.
(OCoLC)fst01907280
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Women -- Renaissance.
(OCoLC)fst01906677
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To 1600
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Biographies.
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History.
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Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Title |
Four thousand years of uppity women |
| ISBN |
9781606710869 |
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1606710869 |
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