01346cam a2200265Ia 450000100070000000500170000700800410002401000170006503500240008204000290010602000180013502000150015302000250016802000220019303500210021505000240023608200120026010000190027224500570029126000330034830000210038152006310040265000200103365000270105310005420230410132654.0080829s2009    nyu           000 f eng d  a  2008038312  a(OCoLC)ocn637357783  aSzZUIDSbgercCHVBKdALV  a9781416594987  a1416594981  a9781416594994 (pbk.)  a141659499X (pbk.)  a(OCoLC)63735778314aPS 3573bW151s 200900a813/.541 aWalbert, Kate.12aA short history of women :ba novel /cKate Walbert.  aNew York :bScribner,c2009.  a239 p. ;c21 cm.  aA Short History of Women opens in England in 1915, at the deathbed of Dorothy Townsend, a suffragist and one of the first women to integrate Cambridge University. Dorothy's daughter, Evie, travels to America after WWI and becomes a professor of chemistry at Barnard College. Decades later, following the death of her son, Evie's niece, also named Dorothy, defies the ban on photographing the caskets of soldiers killed in Iraq at Dover Air Force base, and is arrested. Both young professionals, Dorothy's daughters are embarrassed by their mother's activism and baffled when she leaves their father after 50 years of marriage. 0aWomenvFiction. 4aNovela estadounidense.