Pocket size book where 200 key ideas, feminist movements and feminists are explained. .Contains the following chapters: Key concepts : Schools of feminism : Marriage, motherhood, domesticity : Labour and anti-poverty activism : Sex, power and feminist sexuality : Feminism and racial justice : Religion and feminism : Gender, war and terror : Science and medicine : Feminism and the arts.
A collection of short biographies of women who made a contribution to the making of New York City, United States of America. Many are famous, but others led quieter, private lives, but were just as influential. The research included interviews with people who stuied specific aspects of the City's history (like musical theater, law enforcement, and education), social justice movements (like immigration, labor, abolitionism, suffrage, and LGBTQ concerns), groups that represented varous professions, organizations deoted to individual ethnic groups, museums, architects and city planners and zoning specialists. .Themes in the book are: settlers, revolutionaries, caretakers, builders, liberators, poets, Statue of Liberty, advocates, Wall Street, benefactors, funders, ambassadors, Madison Avenue, actrices, lesbian women, madams, news makers, Harlem renaissance, crooks, authorities, actrices, editors, style setters, artists, soundtrack to the ciry, mythmakers, icons, educators, politicians, preservationists, counterculturists, intellects, loudmouths, nightclub owners, grocers, restaurateurs, tastemakers, immigrants, ushers, entertainers, writers. With quotes and illustrations.