Good Girls Don't Make History
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- USD 10.99
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- USD 10.99
Descripción editorial
History has rarely been told from a woman’s point of view.
Good Girls Don’t Make History is an important graphic novel that amplifies the voices of female legends from 1840 to the present day.
Reliving moments from the lives of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, Alice Paul, Ida B. Wells, and Susan B. Anthony, these inspiring stories are boldly told from one of the most formative eras in women’s history—the fight for the vote in the United States.
The tale begins at a modern-day polling station in California with a mother and daughter voting together, then flashes back 180 years to the World Anti-Slavery Convention where the women's movement got its legendary start.
The twists and turns take readers across the country and through time, illuminating parallels between epic battles for liberty in the past and similar struggles for justice today.
A powerful and important examination of some key figures in the ongoing fight for equality, Good Girls Don’t Make History’s accounts of bravery, perseverance and courage are truly inspiring for readers of any age.
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In one fictional vignette of this nonfiction graphic novel, a modern-day girl's complaint about the length of a voting line results in her mother replying, "It took nearly 100 years to get this right." Flashing back to the past, the narrative centers Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organizing the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, the founding meeting of the women's rights movement in the U.S. Kiehner, Olwell, and Coyle highlight oft-told dramatic moments in the history of women's suffrage activism, from the 1840s through the 1920 ratification of the 19th Amendment, prohibiting sex-based voting discrimination. The narrative focuses largely on well-known white women such as Susan B. Anthony, Victoria Woodhull, Inez Milholland, and Alice Paul, as well as several portraits of Black women's suffrage activists, such as Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Sojourner Truth, and Ida B. Wells. Luscious illustrations by Dawn present a rich range of expressions and dynamic angles. Unfortunately, the book upholds a tired narrative of white women's suffrage activism, failing to point out the large degree of racism and white supremacy present within the movement, and eliding the many significant contributions of Black women, such as Ida B. Wells's founding of the Alpha Suffrage Club. Final art not seen by PW. Ages 12–up.
