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Books > Arts & Architecture > Photography & photographs > Photographic collections > Photographic portraits
In this ambitious global project, two hundred women share inspiring
stories of success and courage, love and pain, redemption, and
generosity. This updated, abridged edition includes powerful new
interviews and stirring quotes alongside selections from the
original book, all answering the same five questions. Presented in
an accessible, chunky paperback brimming with stunning photographs
and empowering stories, this new edition is an illuminating read
for the modern woman and a lovely gift for mothers, sisters,
daughters, and friends. * Equality is explored through diverse
interviews with women from around the world * Brave insightful
interviews with women -- famous as well as unknown, rich and poor,
black and white, leaders, victims, survivors and heroes * Women
featured include Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Angela Davis, Alice Waters,
Amber Heard, and Isabel Allende Fans of In the Company of Women,
The Atlas of Beauty, and Bad Girls Throughout History will love
this book. This book is perfect for: * Fine art photography buffs *
Portraits book fans * Community organizers
Emily Wilding Davison's image has been frozen in time since 1913.
On the 4 June of that year, Emily was struck by the king's horse,
Anmer, during the Epsom Derby. She died four days later. She,
unlike her fellow Militant Suffragettes, did not live to write her
memoirs in a more enlightened and tolerant era. In the aftermath of
the Epsom protest, her family and her northern associates were
caught between two very powerful factions: the Government's spin
doctors and the very efficient publicity machine of Mrs Pankhurst's
W.S.P.U. In response, Emily's family and associates closed ranks
around her mother, Margaret Davison, and her young cousins. For
almost a century, their silence has guarded Emily's story. Now, at
the centenary of Emily's death, her family have come together to
share Emily's side of the story for the first time. Drawing on the
Davison family archives, and filled with more than 100 rare
photographs, this volume explores the true cost of women's
suffrage, revolutionizing in the process our understanding of one
of the defining events of the twentieth century.
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