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Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Offers examples of real-life matriarchs who gave everything to protect their children and causes, from Sojourner Truth's legal campaign against slavery to Irena Sender's advocacy on behalf of young Holocaust victims.
Porath offers examples of real-life matriarchs who gave everything to protect their children and causes. The women covered range Amanirenas, born 60 BCE in the Kingdom of Kush (the Sudan) to Benazir Bhutto, born 1952 in Pakistan. The...
Author
Publisher
Pen & Sword History
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
You won't be familiar with every one of the huge array of women featured in these pages, but all, familiar or not, leave unanswered questions behind them. The range is extensive, as was the research, with its insight into the lives and minds of women in different centuries, different countries, with diverse cultures and backgrounds, from the poverty stricken to royalty. Mistresses, murderers, smugglers, pirates, prostitutes and fanatics with hearts...
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