The history of feminism? The right to vote, Susan B. Anthony, Gloria Steinem, white pantsuits? Oh, but there's so much more. And we need to know about it, especially now. In pithy text and pithier comics,A Brief History of Feminismengages us, educates us, makes us laugh, and makes us angry. It begins with antiquity and the early days of Judeo-Christianity. (Mary Magdalene questions the maleness of Jesus's inner circle: People will end up getting the notion you don't want women to be priests. Jesus: Really, Mary, do you always have to be so negative?) It continues through the Middle Ages, the Early Modern period, and the Enlightenment (Liberty, equality, fraternity! But fraternity means brotherhood!). It covers the beginnings of an organized women's movement in the nineteenth century, second-wave Feminism, queer feminism, and third-wave Feminism. Written byPatu and Antje Schrupp. Hardcover;88 pages.

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