Feminist History Review for Every Day of the Year by Kate Moss – Women Who Helped Change the World | Kate Moss

WOmens make up approximately 50% of the population but only appear in about 0.5% of recorded history. In feminist history for every day of the year, Kate Moss, bestselling author of Labyrinth, celebrates the women who could do it and gives history’s pioneers their due. Aimed at teen readers but also enjoyable for adults, this anthology includes bite-sized stories about female achievement and the centuries-old fight for equality. As Moss notes in the introduction, it is about women “who refused to accept the limitations imposed on them, who participated in campaigns and marches, who fought and challenged the status quo to change the world for the better.”

The book features a mix of famous and lesser-known figures: artists, writers, scientists, academics, mathematicians, teachers and politicians. There’s primatologist Dian Fossey; avant-garde painter Amrita Sher-Gil; Britain’s first black headteacher, Beryl Gilroy; Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai; Ethiopian politician and humanitarian Senedu Gebru; Racehorse trainer Florence Nagel; computer programmers Ada Lovelace and Dorothy Vaughan; and actress and music hall star Josephine Baker, who was also a pilot and French Resistance agent during World War II. Not all of the combined achievers are overt heroes – Marie Stopes may have founded Britain’s first birth control clinic in 1921, but she also believed in eugenics.

Moss and Bridgerton actor Adjoa Andoh are our narrators, their delivery brimming with curiosity and emotion. The entries are for each day of the year but there is no need to listen in order. This is an audiobook designed to dip in and out of your free time.

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Ashley Walters, Penguin Audio, 6 hours and 43 minutes
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Why are you here, Mrs. Hamilton?
Joe Hamilton, Blink Publishing, 8 hours and 26 minutes
Former Postmaster Joe Hamilton’s memoir details her fight for justice after she was wrongly tried for stealing from the Post Office after supposed shortfalls in her accounts. It was read by Monica Dolan, who played Hamilton in the TV series “Mr. Bates vs. the Post Office.”