Non ancora pubblicato in Italia. Un’affascinante storia delle prime femministe nella Londra del 18esimo secolo dove un gruppo di donne si batte per dimostrare di meritare lo stesso riconoscimento degli uomini.
This is an interesting and fascinating look into the Bluestockings, the first women’s movement, born in the eighteenth century when women didn’t have the right to vote, to have their own money, and, in many cases, to decide who to marry. Everything was decided by their fathers or their husbands and they had no freedom. However, there were a few brave women who regained some of their power like Elizabeth Montagu who hosted her own salon “where women and men could converse on intellectual topics as equals.” Ann Yearsley and Catherine Macauley turned to writing to prove their intellect and Hester Thrale managed to entertain some of the most famous writers of the time in her house while giving birth to and taking care of twelve children.
Through this insightful book, Susannah Gibson brings to life the women who led feminism and inspired women years later, proving “that a woman could be as rational as a man. For many, even for women, this was an utterly new
idea.”
