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4,000 years of uppity women : rebellious belles, daring dames, and headstrong heroines through the ages / Vicki León.
LIBRA - Rare HQ1150 .L46 2011 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- León, Vicki.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--History--To 500.
- Women.
- History.
- Women--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500.
- Women--History--Renaissance, 1450-1600.
- Women colonists--Biography.
- Women colonists.
- Women explorers--Biography.
- Women explorers.
- Women--Biography.
- Women--Middle Ages.
- Women--Renaissance.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xv, 223 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, facsimiles ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Revised and updated.
- Other Title:
- Four thousand years of uppity women
- Place of Publication:
- New York : MJF Books, 2011.
- Contents:
- Uppity women of ancient times, ca. 2500 B.C.
- A.D. 450
- Uppity women of medieval times, ca. A.D. 450-1450
- Uppity women of renaissance times, 1450-1750
- Uppity women of the new world, late 1500s-1899.
- Notes:
- Jacket Design: Lisa Chovnick.
- Vicki León has written the 4 volume Uppity Women series. This volume "features the best of that series, chosen by León herself. It focuses not on legendary goddesses or literary characters but on real women (though many of them did become the subjects of poems, plays and stories)."--Dust jacket.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-214) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 9781606710869
- 1606710869
- OCLC:
- 779498344
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