Anna Russell

Great Women's Speeches

Empowering Voices that Engage and Inspire
Illustrator: Pinheiro, Camila

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Quarto Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 144mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9780711255852
• ISBN-10: 0711255857
• Artikelnr.: 58814476

Autorenporträt

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 Condé 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 São Paulo, Brasil. She studied fashion and design in São Paulo, and worked for Dior and several agencies before opening her own studio. Her influences range from Magritte, Matisse and Mondrian to Alexander Girard.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Elizabeth I
On the Spanish Armada
1588 Fanny Wright
Of Free Inquiry Considered as a Means for Obtaining Just Knowledge
1829 Maria Stewart
Farewell Address
1833 Angelina Grimke
Anti-Slavery Speech
1838 Sojourner Truth
Ain't I A Woman?
1851 Victoria Woodhull
The Principles of Social Freedom
1871 Sarah Winnemucca
Indian Affairs Statement
1884 Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The Solitude of Self
1892 Mary Church Terrell
What it Means to be Colored in the Capital of the United States
1906 Ida B. Wells
This Awful Slaughter
1909 Countess Markievicz
Women
Ideals and the Nation
1909 Marie Curie
Nobel Prize Lecture: Radium and the New Concepts in Chemistry
1911 Emmeline Pankhurst
Freedom or Death
1913 Nellie McClung
Should Men Vote?
1914 Jutta Bojsen-Moller
Victory for Votes
1915 Emma Goldman
Address to the Jury
1917 Nancy Astor
Maiden Speech in Parliament
1920 Margaret Sanger
The Morality of Birth Control
1921 Virginia Woolf
Professions for Women
1931 Huda Sha'arawi
Speech at the Arab Feminist Conference
1944 Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
A Talk About Women
1949 Eva Peron
Speech to the Descamisados
1951 Helen Keller
The Life and Legacy of Louis Braille
1952 Eleanor Roosevelt
The United Nations as a Bridge
1954 Shirley Chisholm
Equal Rights for Women
1969 Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Argument in Frontiero v. Richardson
1973 Sylvia Rivera
Y'all Better Quiet Down
1973 Simone Veil
Speech to Parliament on Abortion Law
1974 Indira Gandhi
True Liberation of Women
1980 Margaret Thatcher
The Lady is Not For Turning
1981 Ursula K. LeGuin
A Left-Handed Commencement Speech
1983 Barbara McClintock
Nobel Lecture
1983 Corazon Aquino
Speech During the Joint Session of the US Congress
1986 Naomi Wolf
A Woman's Place
1992 Severn Cullis-Suzuki
Address to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
1992 Wilma Mankiller
Commencement Address
1992 Toni Morrison
Nobel Lecture
1993 Hillary Clinton
Remarks for the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women
1995 Wangari Maathai
Nobel Lecture
2004 J.K. Rowling
Harvard Commencement Speech
2008 Angela Merkel
Speech to the US Congress
2009 Sheryl Sandberg
Barnard College Commencement Address
2011 Ellen Jonson Sirleaf
Nobel Lecture
2011 Asmaa Mahfouz
The Vlog that Helped Spark the Egyptian Revolution
2011 Manal al-Sharif
The Drive for Freedom
2012 Julia Gillard
The Misogyny Speech
2012 Malala Yousafzai
Nobel Prize Lecture
2014 Emma Watson
UN Speech on HeForShe
2014 Jane Goodall
Caring for the Earth - Reasons for Hope
2016 Michelle Obama
Speech at the Democratic National Convention
2016 Gloria Steinem
Women’s March Speech
2017 Beatrice Fihn
Nobel Lecture
2017 Alicia Garza
An Ode to Black Women
2017 Maya Lin
SVA Commencement Address
2018 More Women to Inspire Read All About It! Credits Acknowledgements