Ros Ball

Women Who Won (eBook, ePUB)

70 extraordinary women who reshaped politics

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Did you know that Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka was the first woman in the world to become a democratically elected prime minister? That Tina Anselmi of Italy was a wartime resistance fighter who became the first woman to serve as a cabinet minister? Or that Sylvie Kinigi of Burundi was the first woman to serve as a prime minister in Africa? It is high time these extraordinary women who helped shape our world became household names, and this book brings them at last to the fore.

Women Who Won is a celebration of 70 women from the last 100 years: politicians from around the globe who fought for election in a man's world... and won. Beautifully illustrated by artist Emmy Lupin, it features well-known figures, including Kamala Harris, Benazir Bhutto, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Jacinda Ardern and Julia Gillard, alongside lesser-known women whose stories are ready to be heard:

• Shidzue Kato, one of the first women elected to the Diet of Japan
• Yulia Tymoshenko, the first woman prime minister of Ukraine
• Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to the US Congress
• Peri-Khan Sofieva, the first democratically elected Muslim woman
• Ethel Blondin-Andrew, the first Indigenous woman elected to Canadian parliament

Women of the past, but also women of the present and future. Women who smashed the political glass ceiling. Women who fought to leave a positive legacy for future generations. Women who paved the way for girls of today to become women who won.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Unbound
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781800182530
• Artikelnr.: 67503851

Autorenporträt

Ros Ball was born in Bedfordshire and studied at Goldsmiths College in London. She spent many years as a journalist at the BBC in Westminster and you can usually still see her short films in the gaps between parliamentary sittings on BBC Parliament. In 2017 she published her first book, The Gender Agenda, a two-year diary of the way the world treats her daughter and son differently. Ros lives in London with her family and works for the civil service on equality policy.

Inhaltsangabe

Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir

Iceland

Fiam Naomi Mata afa

Samoa

Shirley Chisholm

USA

Margaret Thatcher

UK

Megawati Sukarnoputri

Indonesia

Sahle-Work Zewde

Ethiopia

Tina Anselmi

Italy

Vaira Vi e-Freiberga

Latvia

Sylvie Kinigi

Burundi

Miina Sillanpää

Finland

Joyce Banda

Malawi

Berta Pipi a

Latvia

Portia Simpson-Miller

Jamaica

Graça Machel

Mozambique

Leyla Zana

Turkey

Maureen Colquhoun

UK

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

Argentina

Ella Koblo Gulama

Sierra Leone

Birtukan Mideksa

Ethiopia

Jadranka Kosor

Croatia

Isabel Ursula Teshea

Trinidad and Tobago

Golda Meir

Israel

Jeannette Rankin

USA

Gro Harlem Brundtland

Norway

Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo

Portugal

Laura Chinchilla

Costa Rica

Iriaka Ratana

New Zealand

Marie Juchacz

Germany

Jahanara Shahnawaz

India

Eugenia Charles

Dominica

Dilma Rousseff

Brazil

Rezensionen

"These profiles-two-page summaries of the lives and achievements of 70 women in the political realm-present an extensive and impressive collection of global leaders, many less well-known, from the 19th century to contemporary times. The geographical representation is broad...riveting." - Kirkus
"Adults will also learn a great deal from this book, because many of these women may be unknown to most readers. It is refreshing to have women across the globe recognized. The beautiful illustrations make the book an even more interesting read. Ros Ball and Emmy Lupin should be commended and encouraged to work together, as the words and images compliment each other so well." - Youth Services Book Review