Great Women's Speeches

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Empowering Voices that Engage and Inspire

By Anna Russell

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Great Women's Speeches by Anna Russell is a captivating collection that celebrates the powerful words of women throughout history. This book compiles influential speeches from various trailblazing women, showcasing their courage, intelligence, and impact on society. Through insightful annotations, it explores the historical context and significance of each speech, offering readers an inspiring glimpse into the eloquence and enduring influence of remarkable women.
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Format: Hardback

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This book may appeal to you if you are inspired by powerful voices that have shaped history and seek to explore the diverse perspectives of influential women throughout time. It offers insight into a variety of speeches, celebrating the eloquence and determination of women leaders, activists, and pioneers who have left an indelible mark on the world.

Great Women's Speeches

Over 50 empowering speeches celebrating women in their own words through extracts and commissioned illustrations, spanning throughout history up to the modern day.

Description

Discover the inspiring voices that have changed our world and started a new conversation. The first dedicated collection of seminal speeches by women from around the world, Great Women's Speeches is about women at the forefront of change within politics, science, human rights, and media. They discuss everything from free love, anti-war, scientific discoveries, race, gender, and women's rights.

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 inspiring. New Yorker writer Anna Russell introduces each speech with a concise bio of the remarkable woman who delivered it. Paired with powerful illustrations from Camila Pinheiro, the unique personality of each woman is brought to vivid life. A pink ribbon keeps your place in the book.

This anthology of outspoken women throughout history is essential reading for anyone who believes that change is not only possible, it is necessary.

The women include: Elizabeth I; Fanny Wright; Maria Stewart; Angelina Grimke; 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-Moller; Emma Goldman; Nancy Astor; Margaret Sanger; Virginia Woolf; Huda Shaarawi; Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti; Eva Peron; 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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780711255852

Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 16 March 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: White Lion Publishing

Illustration: color illustrations

Contributors:

Illustrated by Camila Pinheiro

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 200.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 176

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Anna Russell Biography & Memoir Education & Reference Global History History & Military Non-Fiction Political Biographies

About the Author

Anna Russell is an editor and writer for "The Talk of the Town" section at The New Yorker. She was previously the arts and culture correspondent for The Wall Street Journal in London, and has worked under several other publications, including Conde Nast Traveler, Newsweek, and The New York Daily News. She studied English literature at New York University.

Camila Pinheiro is an illustrator, artist, and mother living in Sao Paulo, Brasil. She studied fashion and design in Sao Paulo, and worked for Dior and several agencies before opening her own studio. Her influences range from Magritte, Matisse and Mondrian to Alexander Girard.