Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere (eBook)

Jeanette Winterson (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
128 Seiten
Canongate Books (Verlag)
978-1-78689-622-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere is a timely and inspiring call to arms by one of Britain's most acclaimed and important writers. Whilst recognising how far women have come in the hundred years since getting the vote, Jeanette Winterson also insists that we must all do much more if we are to achieve true gender equality.Examining recent women's rights movements, the worlds of politics, technology and social media and changes in the law, Winterson calls out all the ways in which women still face discrimination and disadvantage. Like the women who won the right to vote, we need to shout up, reach out, be courageous and finish the job.Also included in this volume is Emmeline Pankhurst's landmark Suffragette speech, 'Freedom or Death', which she delivered in 1913.

Autor

Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester and read English at Oxford, during which time she wrote her first novel, the Whitbread Award-winning Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit. Since then she has published many other novels – including The Passion, Sexing the Cherry, Written on the Body, The PowerBook and The Daylight Gate – a collection of short stories, a book of essays, books for children and a memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?. She has adapted her work for TV, film and stage, was awarded an OBE in 2006 and a CBE in 2018 for services to literature. Her books are published in 32 countries. @Wintersonworld | jeanettewinterson.com

Rezensionen

She is a master of her material, a writer in whom great talent abides

Emotionally wrought and profoundly intelligent . . . A supremely clever, compelling and emotionally affecting novel that deserves multiple readings to appreciate its many layers

A shining delight of a novel

Unforgettable . . . It's the best book I have ever read about the cost of growing up

This book is good, sensible, beautiful company

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.11.2018
• Co-Autor: Emmeline Pankhurst
• Verlagsort: Edinburgh
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Dimbleby Lecture • Equality • feminist campaigns • suffragette movement • the right to vote • women's vote
• ISBN-10: 1-78689-622-2 / 1786896222
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78689-622-3 / 9781786896223