More than Petticoats: Remarkable New York Women (More than Petticoats Series)

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Summary: Little-known women celebrated
Review: A wonderful, easy to read yet informative introduction to some women I knew little about. Thoroughly enjoyable!

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Summary: Herstory,History and some great New Yorkers
Review: Finally a well written, easy to read yet scholarly work about some fascinating New Yorkers, who just happen to be women.
Before television, before the internet, before the vote, the women in this book influence issues as diverse as the Catholic Worker Movement, the Whitney Museum, and the Brooklyn Bridge. The book brings alive their experience, and makes you a partner in their sucess.
A must read for anyone with an interest in hertory,history or New York.

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Summary: Women Who Break the Rules Unite!
Review: It is refreshing to see this book, with its women of various backgrounds and cultures showing the determination to live their lives by the rules they choose, instead of what their individual societies forced upon them at differing times in our history. From the earliest record in what was New Amsterdam, to more recent times, I enjoyed at times a thrilling view of some women of New York I had not heard of but whose nerve and determination helped put women in the position we now enjoy in America, and New York in particular. Women who, in the face of rejection of their communties or downright danger still said "My way or the highway!" This book takes them from their obscurity and shows them as the courageous beings they were. Very inspirational!