By Kate Mosse (author) , Sophie Bass (illustrator)
"This inspirational anthology of feminist history radiates resilience, invention, empowerment and hope."
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Opening with an absolutely brilliant, tone-setting framing quote from writer Rebecca West (“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat”), Kate Mosse’s Feminist History for Every Day of the Year brims with the wisdom and wit of hundreds of “trailblazers who refused to accept the limitations put on them, who campaigned and marched, battled and challenged the status quo to change the world for the better”, as Mosse writes in her introduction.
An entry for every day of the year features pithy accounts of remarkable women you’ve most likely heard of (e.g. Mary Wollstonecraft, Virginia Woolf, Rosa Parks and Simone de Beauvoir), and many you most likely haven’t, among them racing driver, engineer and car designer Dorothée Pullinger, who in 2012 was the first woman to be inducted into the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame (26 years after her death), the 16th-century cross-dressing poet Louise Lab, and Shirley Chisholm, the first African American woman elected to Congress.
Encompassing sportswomen, artists and performers, politicians, scientists and explorers (and more), this treasure trove also features extended essays on seminal feminist topics and moments in history, such as landmark legislation, and why public statues matter. As a result, Feminist History for Every Day of the Year is a fabulous book to dip into for inspiration while appreciating the importance of putting women and girls back into history.
Feminist History for Every Day of the Year by internationally bestselling author and feminist champion Kate Mosse tells the story of women's and girls' history, sweeping across the world and through the ages. From Mary Anning to Simone Biles, Billie Eilish to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Malala Yousafzai to Mary Wollstonecraft, Shirley Chisholm to Jayben Desai, Lily Parr to Sophie Scholl, discover the stories of 366 incredible women throughout history.
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Feminist History for Every Day of the Yea r by internationally bestselling author and feminist champion Kate Mosse tells the story of women's and girls' history, sweeping across the world and through the ages. From Mary Anning to Simone Biles, Billie Eilish to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Malala Yousafzai to Mary Wollstonecraft, Shirley Chisholm to Jayben Desai, Lily Parr to Sophie Scholl, discover the stories of 366 incredible women throughout history.
Within these pages you'll find well known figures and unsung heroes, key cultural moments and forgotten stories, spanning across the world and through time, from ancient times to the modern day. With a piece of history for every day of the year, this is the perfect book to dip into time and time again.
Full of quotes, poems, illustrations and pictures, Feminist History for Every Day of the Year is for all ages, celebrating and championing an inspiring history that is relevant to us all.What will you discover today? Who will you discover today?
Invisible women: To understand how systematically women have vanished from the history books, here are a few facts:
1. Women only occupy around 0.5% of recorded history
2. Only 15% of blue plaques in the UK celebrate female figures
3. Only 1 in 5 statues across the UK are of women (in Edinburgh there are more statues of dogs than women)
4. 68 million women go unrecognised in census records
5. In the KS3 curriculum, 82% of novels taught feature a male protagonist; 77% of schools teach one or no whole texts by female authors across the three years of KS3, with 44% teaching none at all
6. In the 2023 History GCSE exams, only 6% of questions were focused on women in history, compared to 37% of questions about men
Inspiring the next generation: Through the stories of warrior queens, ground-breaking scientists, political trailblazers, pioneering explorers, indefatigable sportswomen, and cultural pioneers – some well-known and others forgotten - we find resilience and hope, loss and triumph, sexism and freedom, joy and brilliance. The book also offers an empowering message for everyone everywhere.
Kate Mosse CBE FRSL is an award-winning novelist, playwright, performer, campaigner, interviewer and non-fiction writer. The author of ten novels and short-story collections, her books have been translated into thirty-eight languages and published in more than forty countries. Fiction includes the multimillion-selling Languedoc Trilogy ( Labyrinth , Sepulchre , Citadel ), The Joubert Family Chronicles ( The Burning Chambers , The City of Tears , The Ghost Ship, The Map of Bones ) and No 1 bestselling Gothic fiction including The Taxidermist's Daughter and The Winter Ghosts . Her highly-acclaimed non-fiction includes An Extra Pair of Hands: A Story of Caring & Everyday Acts of Love and Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World , which inspired her one-woman theatre touring show. A regular guest on radio and television for literature, Kate hosts the pre-show interview series at Chichester Festival Theatre and is a regular interviewer for literary and arts festivals including Letters Live, the Hay Festival, the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the British Library and the Royal National Theatre. Her new podcast, The Matilda Effect , will be launched in summer 2024. The Founder Director of the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction - the world's largest annual literary awards celebrating writing by woman - she is the founder of the global #WomanInHistory campaign and has her own monthly YouTube book show, Mosse on a Monday . A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Kate is also an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Authors, a Visiting Professor of Contemporary Fiction and Creative Writing at the University of Chichester and President of the Festival of Chichester. In the broader arts, Kate is President of the Festival of Chichester, Patron of the Chichester Cathedral Festival of Flowers 2024, Vice-Patron of the Chichester Cathedral Platinum Music Trust and Patron of the Chichester Festival of Music, Dance and Speech. She is also an Ambassador for Parkinsons UK.
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Feminist History for Every Day of the Year was written by Kate Mosse and published by Macmillan Children's Books an imprint of Pan Macmillan
Feminist History for Every Day of the Year has 624 pages
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