A Short History of Women - Kate Walbert • BookLikes (ISBN:1439100543)

A Short History of Women

by: Kate Walbert (author)

Format: ebook

ISBN: 9781439100547 (1439100543)

Publish date: June 16th 2009

Publisher: Scribner

Pages no: 256

Edition language: English

Category:

Novels, Book Club, Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Adult, Feminism, Contemporary, Short Stories, Womens

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I am lucky in the way that the women in Kate Walbert’s A Short History of Women are not. Because I was born after more than a century of women’s suffrage and liberation movements, I had so many more paths open to me than the women in this book. I was never prevented from voting. I was never expected...

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Cheryl's books rated it

15 years ago

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The sum is less than the parts.

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attempting obscurity rated it

15 years ago

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Eh. I'd read some great reviews of this, but I just couldn't get into it. Too disjointed. It traces the paths of 3 or 4 different women along the same genealogical line, great-grandmother down to great-granddaughter. It keeps jumping back and forth, without substantially different voices for the...

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