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 | As a whole, this series spans over 4500 years--from 2700 b.c. until the 1870s. It covers women on six continents. And it contains nearly 900 profiles--most of them remarkable, yet largely unsung women. Now numbering four in the series, the Uppity Women books have sold more than 200,000 copies to date, and have been praised by reviewers from Ms. to People to Publishers Weekly to NPR's "51%." |
| "Vicki León's Uppity Women jumped off the pages and implored me to dramatize and recreate their extraordinary lives on film, so that a worldwide audience might experience herstory in all its sexy, funny, brilliant, adventuresome, thoughtful, and inspiring ways. I had to say yes!" —Judith Vogelsang, film producer and director, and President of Stone Harbor Films |
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| Women of color on five continents take center stage in this zesty book of 225 profiles. These gamblers include frequent flyers Blanchard and Delon, whose ballooning antics won headlines; freedom fighters like Jamaica's Grandy Nanny and Mexico's Gertrudis Bocanegra; gutsy Quakers like undertaker/spy Lydia Darragh; and Native American saint Kateri Tekakwitha |
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| Time-share Greek courtesans; Enheduana, world's first "name" author; dynasties like the four Julias who ran Rome; warrior princess and architect Artemisia of Asia Minor; a teenaged track star trio from Tralles--they're all here, in a book bursting with impudence and rare details, nestled in the larger context of the long-ago world in which these girls and women lived. | A round-the-world medly of 200-plus mischief makers, plague-ridders, blacksmiths, bankers, pirates, holy women, and holy terrors who dazzled the Dark Ages and rocked the Renaissance. Their numbers include daring daughters and model moms like Koken and Komyo, who transformed Japan; and humble folks like meat retailer Marie Valence, who kept the Crusaders alive | Get ready to meet 210 more-than-fair damsels who refused to button up or back down, from law-and-order lady sheriff Anne Clifford to riot leader Alice Clark. Despite witch crazes and wars, a kinder philosophy struggled to emerge, giving hope to your average wench in the street: "This humanism thing. Sure, it's a shot in the dark--but what if women were individuals too?" |
| Vicki León's history series for younger readers, 8 to 14
(hey, lots of grownups like 'em too!) |
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