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The Lives and Loves of History's Most Notorious Women
Perigee
March 2011
On Sale: March 1, 2011
288 pages
ISBN: 0399536450
EAN: 9780399536458
Kindle: B004H0M8P4
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Romance Historical
Throughout history, women have caused wars, defied the
rules, and brought men to their knees. The famous and the
infamous, queens, divorcees, actresses, and outlaws, have
created a ruckus during their lifetimes—turning heads while
making waves. Scandalous Women tells the stories of the risk
takers who have flouted convention, beaten the odds, and
determined the course of world events. •When Cleopatra (69BC – 30BC) wasn’t bathing in asses’ milk,
the last pharaoh of the Ptolemaic dynasty ruled Egypt and
forged an important political alliance with Rome against her
enemies – until her dalliance with Marc Antony turned the
empire against her. •Emilie du Chatelet (1706 – 1748), a mathematician,
physicist, author, and paramour of one of the greatest minds
in France, Voltaire, shocked society with her unorthodox
lifestyle and intellectual prowess -- and became a leader in
the study of theoretical physics in France at a time when
the sciences were ruled by men. •Long before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the
bus, Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862 – 1928) fought to end
discrimination and the terrible crime of lynching and helped
found the NAACP, but became known as a difficult woman for
her refusal to compromise and was largely lost in the annals
of history. •Gertrude Bell (1868 – 1926) had a passion for archaeology
and languages, and left her privileged world behind to
become one of the foremost chroniclers of British
imperialism in the Middle East, and one of the architects of
the modern nation of Iraq.
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