Women Who Change the World: Stories from the Fight for Social Justice (Lewis Lynn)(Paperback)

Inspiring oral histories of women fighting for justice and radical social change at community, state, and national levels.
Women's labor has been essential to every social justice movement. For centuries, women have led freedom and decolonization struggles, anti-poverty battles, voting rights campaigns, and organizations for racial justice and sexual freedom. Women have not only been on the front lines, they have also served as the healers, teachers, cultural workers, and strategists of historic movements--but their views and voices have seldom been heard or studied. For every famous woman at the head of a movement, there are thousands whose efforts go unsung.
In this timely and deeply inspiring book, award-winning oral historian Lynn Lewis brings together the stories of nine exceptional women who describe the arc of their political work from their
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