HerStory: 50 Women and Girls Who Shook the World (Stories That Shook Up the World)

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This book is an explanation of this concept and the application of this framework to understand the global power dynamics between the East and the West. Author Richard Dawkins also described his criticism in The God Delusion, arguing that "the word history has not been influenced by the male pronoun". As mentioned, these stories include quotes either from the composers themselves or from people around at the time.

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She was determined not to be ruled by any man in case she ended up like her mother and stepmothers-set aside, forgotten, or even killed. The book begins in 1972, in the middle of the Troubles — a 30-year conflict between the Catholic Irish, who wanted to leave the UK, and the Protestants who wanted to stay. Collectively then, HerStory is a superbly useful and engaging anthology, chock-full of fabulous musical rediscoveries. Celebrated in this lavish hardback, the stories of 50 great women redefine their “herstory”, from disability activist Helen Keller to Indian poet, singer and saint Mira Bai and Aboriginal Australian Olympic athlete Cathy Freeman.Childbirth as a rite of passage: key elements of childbirth as a rite of passage and the role of care providers (setting the scene for Part Two). The Age of Extremes is all about failures: of communism, of state socialism, of market capitalism, and even of nationalism. The gap in mainstream memory of this heavily politicized war is what Viet Thanh Nguyen addresses in his thought-provoking nonfiction book, Nothing Ever Dies.

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Blood mysteries: an exploration of women’s bodily rites of passage and how they are interrelated with the childbirth experience.The instabilities of Latin America over the last century have largely stemmed from its turbulent and violent past, its land and people having been exploited by European imperial powers, followed by American interventionism. I think it could still be useful as an introduction to young readers about famous women in history, however the rosy representations of some of the women should be taken with a (sometimes large) grain of salt. If this thesis has piqued your interest, then we naturally suggest you start with Volume I to understand what exactly Gibbon considers “virtue” to be, and how it was lost.

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History can be viewed as “his-story”: the tales of men who have, in the past, had greater access to successful and powerful roles, and who have thereby shaped history to reflect their point of view.This comic by Beijing native Jing Liu turns history on its head by presenting it in a fun, digestible manner for anybody that has an interest in Chinese history (but isn’t quite ready to tackle an 800-page book on the subject yet). Believe it or not, history doesn’t always mean slogging through page after page of dense, footnoted text. When Edward, aged only fifteen, became ill and died, Elizabeth’s older sister, Mary, took the throne. I have read a LOT of these types of books, and I think there are many that do the same thing, but better and not problematic and gross.