Bloody Brilliant Women Cathy Newman by Cathy Newman 9780008241711, 9780008241698, 0008241716, 0008241694, 835ddd7a-910c-4389-86f1-35c6efdb9ed3 instant download after payment.

A fresh, opinionated history of all the brilliant women you should have learned about in school but didn't. In this freewheeling, feminist history of modern Britain, Channel 4 journalist Cathy Newman explores the motivations of the women who played a crucial role in the dramatic transformations that took place in British women's lives from the mid-nineteenth century onward. These were uncompromising women who seized – or created – opportunities for themselves and who refused to be bowed by tradition, convention, or their generation's hostile, entrenched views about gender. While a few of them are now household names, many more have faded into oblivion, their personal and collective achievements mere footnotes in the history we are told. We know of Emmeline Pankhurst, Vera Brittain, Marie Stopes and Beatrice Webb, but who, outside of academic circles, remembers engineer and chain-smoking motorbike racer Beatrice Shilling, whose device for the Spitfires' Rolls-Royce Merlin engines...