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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: In the Victorian era, British women gained more autonomy via new marriage reforms.
Chapter 3: Women’s remarkable contributions to wartime efforts were ultimately rewarded with voting rights.
Chapter 4: Women fought for sexual freedom in the interwar years and saw new political and professional benefits too.
Chapter 5: Women played a vital role in World War II yet still remained subject to discriminatory laws.
Chapter 6: Working-class women benefited from an expanded postwar welfare state, while demobilization caused trouble at home.
Chapter 7: Women embraced new sexual freedoms in the 1960s and ushered in radical ideas about gender relations.
Chapter 8: Although a strong leader, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher did nothing to advance the progress of women.
Description
Bloody Brilliant Women (2018) shines a light on some of British history’s most remarkable women, who, for years, were conveniently left out of history books mainly written by men. Newman rights this wrong, providing an exhaustive history of the multitude of women responsible for shaping Britain from the 1880s to the present day.
Who Should Listen
- History buffs
- Feminists
- Anglophiles