![]() ![]() While it may be clear to some that author Vicki Leon did research, it wasn't to me. ![]() It focuses not on legendary goddesses or literary characters but on real women (though many of them did become the subjects of poems, plays, and stories). For more than twenty years, Vicki Leon has been examining this evidence, chasing clues however faint and unconventional, and reporting her findings in numerous books, including the delightful four volume Uppity Women series.Ĥ,000 Years of Uppity Women features the best of that series, chosen by Leon herself. ![]() But the evidence of their achievements exists everywhere: in writings, coins, artifacts, graffiti, music, portraits, legal transcripts, love notes, and hate mail. Most traditional histories written by men ignore, obscure, or erase the role of women, especially those who challenge the status quo. Almost every organized religion, from Christianity to Buddhism to Quaker, has gotten off the ground thanks to the hard work and cold cash of women! Since ancient times, irrepressible women have broken all kinds of barriers. ![]()
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