Bloody Brilliant Women by Cathy Newman
A bloody brilliant book, a recognition for all these intelligent, fearless and inspirational women who have been largely forgotten in history. Read this book and then give it to your daughters and granddaughters, to your sons and grandsons.
Until 1948, women who graduated from Cambridge University were denied the honour of graduating with a full degree that would make them members of the university. Their name were not on the degree ceremony list. Women graduates should be satisfied with mailed university certificates, a titular degree.
70 years on, and women are shattering one glass ceiling after another. There are still obstacles to overcome but there is a lot to celebrate and reflect on. Breaking the silences surrounding patriarchy, women all around are continually shaking rules and values that specify how men and women should act in order to be safe and protected. "We are going through a feminist revival. By reclaiming our fears, we found our true and honest voices. This tremendous need to communicate our own feelings became the seed for resistance and transformation.
We have come a long way in the past 100 years. We own a lot to the suffrage pioneers that took their courage in their own hands, refusing a destiny that subordinated them. Journalist and presenter Cathy Newman writes about these talented women and their accomplishments, their hard-won fight to vote, to win the right to say how they wanted to be governed, to be included. She tells the story of these bloody brilliant women who put their lives and freedom at risk to secure the basic democratic rights, at a time when women had few legal rights. In the process, they raised issues that have had a profound impact in our lives, they changed laws and social norms, indeed, they transform Britain. These women were writers, artists, human rights activists, political thinkers, scientists, and pioneers of cultural change.
Emmeline Pankhurst, Vera Brittain, Marie Stopes, Beatrice Shilling, women who worked at Bletchley, Rosalind Franklin, Bell Burnell, Margaret Thatcher, and female MPs of today, are some of the well-known and less well-known women covered in this fascinated and well-researched book.
A bloody brilliant book, a recognition for all these intelligent, fearless and inspirational women who have been largely forgotten in history. Read this book and then give it to your daughters and granddaughters, to your sons and grandsons.