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 .