{"product_id":"normal-women-nine-hundred-years-of-making-history-hardcover","title":"Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePhilippa Gregory\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Lively, timely and gloriously energetic. Each page bursts with life, and every chapter swirls with personalities left out of traditional narratives of Britain's past. Philippa Gregory has produced something rare and wonderful: a genuinely new history of [Britain], with women at its beating heart.\" --Dan Jones, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003ebestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Plantagenets\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"You've devoured her novels, but now Gregory shows off chops as a historian. . . . An amazing read.\" --\u003cem\u003eThe Los Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe #1 \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling historical novelist delivers her magnum opus--a landmark work of feminist nonfiction that radically redefines our understanding of the extraordinary roles ordinary women played throughout British history.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAN INDIE BESTSELLER\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDid you know that there are more penises than women in the Bayeux Tapestry? That the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 was started and propelled by women who were protesting a tax on women? Or that celebrated naturalist Charles Darwin believed not just that women were naturally inferior to men, but that they'd evolve to become ever more inferior?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are just a few of the startling findings you will learn from reading Philippa Gregory's \u003cem\u003eNormal Women\u003c\/em\u003e. In this ambitious and groundbreaking book, she tells the story of England over 900 years, for the very first time placing women--some fifty per cent of the population--center stage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing research skills honed in her work as one of our foremost historical novelists, Gregory trawled through court records, newspapers, and journals to find highwaywomen and beggars, murderers and brides, housewives and pirates, female husbands and hermits. The \"normal women\" you will meet in these pages went to war, ploughed the fields, campaigned, wrote, and loved. They rode in jousts, flew Spitfires, issued their own currency, and built ships, corn mills and houses. They committed crimes or treason, worshipped many gods, cooked and nursed, invented things, and rioted. A lot.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA landmark work of scholarship and storytelling, \u003cem\u003eNormal Women\u003c\/em\u003e chronicles centuries of social and cultural change--from 1066 to modern times--powered by the determination, persistence, and effectiveness of women.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e*INCLUDES ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT AND A FULL-COLOR INSERT*\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An expansive, inclusive and elegantly woven nonfiction account of the lives of women in England from the Norman Conquest to the modern day. To describe it as merely a retelling is to undermine a core principle: This is a history of women in England, yes, but it is also a history of England, full stop. . . . At more than 500 pages, with extensive endnotes and a 30-page index, \u003cem\u003eNormal Women\u003c\/em\u003e is a behemoth you may be inclined to skim, until you realize you're actually luxuriating in every word.\" --\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 688\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.97 x 9.06 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 27, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978590355757,"sku":"9780063304321","price":36.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/1FBypvX5kv9780063304321.webp?v=1775806029","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/normal-women-nine-hundred-years-of-making-history-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}