Normal women : 900 years of making history / Philippa Gregory.
"Did you know that there are more penises than women in the Bayeux Tapestry? That the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 was started and propelled by women who were protesting a tax on women? Or that celebrated naturalist Charles Darwin believed not just that women were naturally inferior to men, but that they'd evolve to become ever more inferior? These are just a few of the startling findings you will learn from reading Philippa Gregory's Normal Women. In this ambitious and groundbreaking book, she tells the story of England over 900 years, for the very first time placing women--some fifty per cent of the population--center stage. Using research skills honed in her work as one of our foremost historical novelists, Gregory trawled through court records, newspapers, and journals to find highwaywomen and beggars, murderers and brides, housewives and pirates, female husbands and hermits. The "normal women" you will meet in these pages went to war, ploughed the fields, campaigned, wrote, and loved. They rode in jousts, flew Spitfires, issued their own currency, and built ships, corn mills and houses. They committed crimes or treason, worshipped many gods, cooked and nursed, invented things, and rioted. A lot. A landmark work of scholarship and storytelling, Normal Women chronicles centuries of social and cultural change--from 1066 to modern times--powered by the determination, persistence, and effectiveness of women."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 0008601712
- ISBN: 0063304325
- ISBN: 0063304333
- ISBN: 9780008601713
- ISBN: 9780063304321
- ISBN: 9780063304338
- Physical Description: 678 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 24 cm
- Edition: First HarperOne hardcover [edition].
- Publisher: New York, NY : HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2024.
- Copyright: ©2023
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 641-649) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- 1066-1348: Doomsday -- 1348-1455: Women rising -- 1455-1485: Women at war -- 1485-1660: Becoming a weaker vessel -- 1660-1764: Locked out and locked in -- 1765-1857: Making a lady -- 1857-1928: Separate spheres -- 1928-1945: Into the world -- 1945-1994: A woman today. |
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Genre: | Informational works. |
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- 7 of 25 copies available at NC Cardinal.
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- 11 current holds with 25 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Public Library of Johnston County and Smithfield | 942.0099 Gre (Text) | 38955500123162 | Adult New Nonfiction | Available | - |
Beaufort Main | 942.009 GREGO (Text) | 34208900211367 | Adult New Nonfiction | Checked out | 03/19/2024 |
Benhaven Public Library | 942.009 Gre (Text) | 33630005363184 | Adult Nonfiction | In process | - |
Braswell Memorial Main Library | 942.0099 GRE (Text) | 37807000060958 | Adult New Nonfiction | Available | - |
Cliffdale Library | 942.0099 G (Text) | 31781068857513 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Columbus Library | 942.009 GRE (Text) | 31250200089159 | Adult New Nonfiction | Checked out | 03/13/2024 |
Cumberland Headquarters | 942.0099 G (Text) | 31781068857505 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked out | 03/28/2024 |
Dunn Public Library | 942.009 Gre (Text) | 33436001684452 | Adult Nonfiction | In process | - |
East Asheville Library | 942.009 GRE (Text) | 0020660236074 | Adult New Nonfiction | On holds shelf | - |
Enka-Candler Library | F GRE (Text) | 0020660247774 | Adult New Fiction | In process | - |