Description
| Product ID: | 9780711255852 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | CN |
| Title: | Great Women's Speeches |
| Subtitle: | Empowering Voices that Engage and Inspire |
| Authors: | Author: Anna Russell, Camila Pinheiro |
| Page Count: | 176 |
| Subjects: | Biography: historical, political and military, Biography: historical, political & military, Speeches, General and world history, Society and culture: general, Speeches, General & world history, Society & culture: general |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Over 50 empowering speeches celebrating women in their own words through extracts and commissioned illustrations, spanning throughout history up to the modern day. This is an edited and resized version of So Here I Am: Speeches by great women to empower and inspire. Discover the inspiring voices that have changed our world, and started a new conversation. Great Women’s Speeches is essential reading for pioneering women everywhere. From Emmeline Pankhurst’s ‘Freedom or Death’ speech and Marie Curie’s trailblazing Nobel lecture, to Michelle Obama speaking on parenthood in politics and Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza’s stirring ode to black women, the words collected here are empowering, engaging and entirely unapologetic. With powerful illustrations from Camila Pinheiro, Anna Russell’s rousing anthology is dedicated to anyone who dares to ask for more. The women: Elizabeth I; Fanny Wright; Maria Stewart; Angelina Grimké; Sojourner Truth; Victoria Woodhull; Sarah Winnemucca; Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Mary Church Terrell; Ida B. Wells; Countess Markievicz; Marie Curie; Emmeline Pankhurst; Nellie McClung; Jutta Bojsen-Møller; Emma Goldman; Nancy Astor; Margaret Sanger; Virginia Woolf; Huda Sha'arawi; Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti; Eva Perón; Helen Keller; Eleanor Roosevelt; Shirley Chisholm; Ruth Bader Ginsburg; Sylvia Rivera; Simone Veil; Indira Gandhi; Margaret Thatcher; Ursula K. Le Guin; Barbara McClintock; Corazon C. Aquino; Naomi Wolf; Severn Cullis-Suzuki; Wilma Mankiller; Toni Morrison; Hillary Clinton; Wangari Maathai; J.K. Rowling; Angela Merkel; Sheryl Sandberg; Ellen Johnson Sirleaf; Asmaa Mahfouz; Manal al-Sharif; Julia Gillard; Malala Yousafzai; Emma Watson; Jane Goodall; Michelle Obama; Gloria Steinem; Beatrice Fihn; Alicia Garza; Maya Lin. |
| Imprint Name: | White Lion Publishing |
| Publisher Name: | Quarto Publishing PLC |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-03-16 |