HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 21 WOMEN

Jenni Murray gives the Lie to Thomas carlyle’s infamous declaration that ‘the history of the world is but the biography of great men.’ women have played just as great a role in the story of humankind, only for their own tales to be marginalised, censored and forgotten. No more. In a history of the world in 21 women, Jenni Murray celebrates the lives, struggles and achievements of hatshepsut, Joan of arc, Isabella of castile, artemisia gentileschi, Catherine the great, Clara schumann, dowager Empress cixi, Marie Curie, Coco Chanel, Golda Meir, Frida Kahlo, sirimavo bandaranaike, Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, Wangari Maathai, Hillary Clinton, Benazir Bhutto, Angela Merkel, Madonna, Anna politkovskaya and Cathy Freeman.