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a short history of women
a short history of women opens in england in 1915 at the deathbed of dorothy townsend a suffragist and one of the first women to integrate cambridge university . dorothys daughter evie travels america after wwi and becomes a professor of chemistry at barnard college . decades later following the death of her son evies niece also named dorothy defies the ban on photographing the caskets of soldiers killed in iraq at dover air force base and is arrested . both young professionals dorothys daughters are embarrassed by their mothers activism and baffled when she leaves their father after 50 years of marriage .
hardcover center point large print 2009 isbn13 9781602855175 isbn10 160285517x
abridged n isbn 13 9781602855175 number in series 1 number of pages 302 publisher center point large print release date 62135769600000