Great women's speeches : empowering voices that engage and inspire

Russell, Anna (Anna Rose) (author.). Pinheiro, Camila, (illustrator.).

Summary: Over 50 empowering speeches celebrating women in their own words through extracts and commissioned illustrations, spanning throughout history up to the modern day. Discover the inspiring voices that have changed our world, and started a new conversation. The first dedicated collection of seminal speeches by women from around the world, Great Womens Speeches is about women at the forefront of change-within politics, science, human rights, and media; discussing everything from free love, anti-war, scientific discoveries, race, gender, and women's rights. This anthology of outspoken women throughout history is essential reading for anyone who believes that change is not only possible, it is necessary.

Record details

ISBN: 9780711255852
ISBN: 0711255857
Physical Description: print
176 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Publisher: London : White Lion Publishing, 2021.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

On the Spanish Armada, 1588 / Elizabeth -- Of Free Inquiry, Considered as a Means for Obtaining Just Knowledge, 1829 / Fanny Wright -- Farewell Address, 1833 / Maria Stewart -- Anti-Slavery Speech, 1838 / Angelina Grimke -- Ain't I A Woman?, 1851 / Sojourner Truth -- The Principles of Social Freedom, 1871 / Victoria Woodhull -- Indian Affairs Statement, 1884 / Sarah Winnemucca -- The Solitude of Self, 1892 / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- What It Means to be Colored in the Capital of the United States, 1906 / Mary Church Terrell -- This Awful Slaughter, 1909 / Ida B. Wells -- Women, Ideals and the Nation, 1909 / Countess Markievicz -- Nobel Lecture: Radium and the New Concepts in Chemistry, 1911 / Marie Curie -- Freedom or Death, 1913 / Emmeline Pankhurst -- Should Men Vote?, 1914 / Nellie McClung -- Victory for Votes, 1915 / Jutta Bojsen-Meller -- Address to the Jury, 1917 / Emma Goldman -- Maiden Speech in Parliament, 1920 / Nancy Astor