Buy this book on-line MACKSEY**, JOAN & KENNETH: : The GUINNESS Guide to Feminine AchievementsUK,MIDDLESEX.GUINNESS,1975. ISBN 0900424311.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn.FINE/NFINE. No owner inscrptn,but price-clip to dw/dj.8vo, 288pp includes Sources,a Bibliography,an Index and b/w illustrations and photographs.
Concisely presented,a story of women who have made contributions to history in almost every major field of endeavour.The authors have selected the women - about 1,500 - who,in their opinion have been originators,leaders or celebrities,and tackle the subject by putting people before events and causes.International in scope,and naturally the most famous women of all time,such as Cleopatra, Elizabeth Fry, Florence Nightingale, Jane Austen, Sarah Bernhardt,Amelia Earhart and Marie Curie find prominent places.In addition, however,there are a host of other women, some less well known but highly significant,such as Clara Barton and Margaret Sanger,and some almost obscure, like Katerina Zaleska,who have performed nobly,who are also entered.By grouping these women in categories such as housemakers,politicians,courtesans, artists,writers and so on,and linking them
by cross-reference,the evolution of women's influence up to the present is charted.A picture of quite astonishing success against heavy odds emerges and on a scale which is often overlooked by those who regard women as the downtrodden sex.At the same time a feeling that women have
for long been the subject of devious and restrictive practices becomes quite inescapable in a book which,nevertheless,pays scant attention to extremist points of view as yet another aspect of the history of women.
This book therefore,fills two important requirements.It is the story of women's achievements against sometimes great odds as well as being a handy work of reference
with a bibliography and many carefully chosen pictures.
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