Rebel Women

More than twenty-five years ago The Women's History of the World, by the brilliant historian, journalist and academic, Rosalind Miles, burst upon the world. It was instantly lauded and applauded by everyone from A.S. Byatt ('Witty, balanced, inexorable . . . and splendid') to the Washington Post ('an inspiration'). The book went on to be a longstanding Sunday Times bestseller, was translated into almost 40 foreign languages and became a New York Times bestseller.

It is time for a new appraisal - Rebel Women: The Women's History of the Modern World. This entirely new book conducts a critical examination of how women have fared in what history calls the modern age. The last two hundred years have witnessed the worst and greatest social upheavals in the history of the world, war, revolution, and genocide, mass murder on an industrial scale. At the same time, women have made greater advances than in all the previous ages of the human record.

Rebel Women will examine the progress of events and the roles of women as they emerged from millennia of silence and suppression to play their part in every modern movement as it unfurled.

Brave, brilliant, unrivalled in its wit and erudition, Rebel Women is a hugely readable book.