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The Women Who Made New York
Hallie Heald
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Description for The Women Who Made New York
Hardcover. Illustrator(s): Heald, Hallie. Num Pages: 352 pages, Color illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; HBJK; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 186 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1012.
Read any history of New York City and you will read about men. You will read about men who were political leaders and men who were activists and cultural tastemakers. These men have been lauded for generations for creating the most exciting and influential city in the world. But that's not the whole story. The Women Who Made New York reveals the untold stories of the phenomenal women who made New York City the cultural epicentre of the world. Many were revolutionaries and activists, like Zora Neale Hurston and Audre Lorde. Others were icons and iconoclasts, like Fran Lebowitz ... Read more
Read any history of New York City and you will read about men. You will read about men who were political leaders and men who were activists and cultural tastemakers. These men have been lauded for generations for creating the most exciting and influential city in the world. But that's not the whole story. The Women Who Made New York reveals the untold stories of the phenomenal women who made New York City the cultural epicentre of the world. Many were revolutionaries and activists, like Zora Neale Hurston and Audre Lorde. Others were icons and iconoclasts, like Fran Lebowitz ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Seal Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Seattle, WA, United States
ISBN
9781580056533
SKU
V9781580056533
Shipping Time
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99-10
About Hallie Heald
Julie Scelfo is a Fall 2018 TED Resident in New York City, and a former staff writer/current contributor to The New York Times, where she wrote stories about society and human behavior. She has written about transgender pronouns; the intersection of campus suicides with social media and perfectionism; the human health risks from synthetic chemicals in consumer products; homelessness; and ... Read more
Reviews for The Women Who Made New York
Forgetting-and belatedly remembering-women is a historiographical tradition as old as history itself. The Women Who Made New York positions itself as an antidote to that process...With its romantic illustrations and requisite three pages dedicated to Joan Didion, it would be easy to dismiss The Women Who Made New York as mere gifting bait for anyone with a niece at Barnard ... Read more