num_pages: 352
description: Eight women who changed the worldCaroline Norton * Elizabeth Blackwell * Florence Nightingale * Emily Davies * Josephine Butler * Elizabeth Cady Stanton * Margaret Sanger * Emma GoldmanSignificant Sisters traces the lives of eight women, each of whom pioneered vital changes in the spheres of law, education, the professions, morals or the first woman doctor, the pioneer of birth control, a radical journalist, and suffragists. Each forged her own particular brand of feminism, yet all fought bravely to make real, lasting difference to women's lives, and make us redefine our own notions of feminism today.
language: English
title: Significant Sisters: The grassroots of active feminism 1839-1939
titlecomplete: Significant Sisters: The grassroots of active feminism 1839-1939
genres: Biography, Feminism, History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 78
publisher: Vintage Books