The Poisonwood Bible
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Barbara Kingsolver's acclaimed international bestseller tells the story of an American missionary...
Latina Political Participation and Activism in the U.S.
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Anna Sampaio's book provides an overview of Latina political participation and activism beginning in...
The Making of the West End Stage: Marriage, Management and the Mapping of Gender in London, 1830-1870
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All roads lead to London - and to the West End theatre. This book presents a new history of the...
Beyond the Cloister: Catholic Englishwomen and Early Modern Literary Culture
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Representations of Catholic women appear with surprising frequency in the literature of...
Joining the Dots: A Woman In Her Time
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From Britain’s leading social historian, a lyrical look at the changes to women’s lives since...
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Bad Girls from History: Wicked or Misunderstood?
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You wont be familiar with every one of the huge array of women featured in these pages, but all,...
The Radium Girls: The Scary But True Story of the Poison That Made People Glow in the Dark was adapted for younger readers by Kate Moore from her bestselling novel The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women.
It tells the story of the wonder drug of the early 1900s, radium. It was thought to cure illnesses, and its luminescent properties made it ideal for glow-in-the-dark watches and for dials and instruments of pilots during WWI. To paint these devices, women would lick the brushes, dip them into the radium, paint, then repeat. The women did not know they were becoming sick with radium poisoning. Some did not show symptoms until years after they stopped working with the radium.
If you read the original version, you know it is detailed and includes timelines of multiple people. The version for a younger audience is written with age-appropriate content, but it is still incredibly detailed and more than 400 pages. The story shows these women as individuals, showing their separate lives, but also the strong, tight-knit group who fought for themselves and to ensure workplace safety for all.
This book is perfect for assigned reading for history or science classes.
This 200-word review was published on Philomathinphila.com on 9/1/20.
Theodora: Actress, Empress, Saint
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Two of the most famous mosaics from the Byzantine period, from the church of San Vitale in Ravenna,...
The Complete Tragedies, Volume 1: Medea, the Phoenician Women, Phaedra, the Trojan Women, Octavia: Volume 1
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Shad Bartsch, Susanna Braund and Alex Dressler
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Edited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, the...
Queens of the Conquest: England's Medieval Queens
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The story of England's medieval queens is vivid and stirring, packed with tragedy, high drama and...