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Gender Rebels

50 Influential Cross-Dressers, Impersonators, Name-Changers, and Game-Changers

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Includes audio exclusive bonus material: Suranne Jones, Maya Jama, Gemma Cairney and Anneka Harry discuss their favourite Gender Rebels, feminism, their female role models and how women are missing (or misrepresented) in the history books.

Meet the unsung sheroes of history: the diverse, defiant and daring (wo)men who changed the rules, and their identities, to get sh*t done.

You’ll encounter Kit Cavanagh, the swaggering Irish dragoon who was the first woman to be buried in London with full military honours; marauding 18th-century pirates Mary Read and Anne Bonny, who collided on the high seas after swapping their petticoats for pantaloons; Ellen Craft, an escaped slave who masqueraded as a white master to spirit her husband-to-be to freedom; and Billy Tipton, the swinging jazz musician, who led a double life as an adult, taking five wives along the way.

A call to action for the modern world, this book celebrates the #GenderRebels who paved the way for women everywhere to be soldiers and spies; kings and queens; firefighters, doctors, pilots; and a Swiss Army knife’s-worth more. These superbly spirited (wo)men all had one thing in common: they defied the rules to progress in a man’s world.

©2019 Anneka Harry (P)2019 W. F. Howes Ltd Biographies & Memoirs Gender Studies Social Sciences Women Royalty Marriage England Pirate
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A well researched informative account of the lives of some extraordinary women told in the authors own unique style

An absorbing but fun historic account

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Who wouldn’t want to hear brilliant women read a book written by a woman about other fantastic women aka gender rebels?! - I loved every second of it and mourned it’s ending deeply! (Part II anyone!?!?!)
To quote another woman (Jane Austen) “If a book is well written, I always find it too short”.

Give this woman an award for bringing women’s stories to light.

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Loved this audiobook. It’s so informative about women’s history and I think would be inspiring for women and for young people especially. We need to be hearing these stories so we can move forward in a fair society. It’s not your usual dry history either...it’s bitesize and fun, full of laughs and roll-your-eyes moments as well as poignant and hard hitting struggles. Definitely recommend

Why aren’t we taught this in school?

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Why ?.. Do we not know the lives of these women.
Perfect listen in chunks, opens your mind to the struggles women have had to put up with in order to be successful in their own right.

Fascinating..

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Couldn’t finish it. Hated the book and hated the readers even more. Seems to be written for 13 year olds.

Just awful

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