Normal women : 900 years of making history /

Did you know that there are more penises than women in the Bayeux Tapestry? That the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 was started and propelled by women who were protesting a tax on women? Or that celebrated naturalist Charles Darwin believed not just that women were naturally inferior to men, but that...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gregory, Philippa (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024].
Subjects:	Women > Great Britain > Social conditions > History. Women > Great Britain > History. Great Britain > History > 1485- Great Britain > History > 1066-1687. Great Britain > History. Great Britain > Social conditions. Great Britain > Politics and government. Women > Great Britain > Social conditions.

Table of Contents:

1066-1348: Doomsday
1348-1455: Women rising
1455-1485: Women at war
1485-1660: Becoming a weaker vessel
1660-1764: Locked out and locked in
1765-1857: Making a lady
1857-1928: Separate spheres
1928-1945: Into the world
1945-1994: A woman today.