01465cam a2200325Ia 4500 100054 20230410132654.0 080829s2009 nyu 000 f eng d 2008038312 (OCoLC)ocn637357783 SzZUIDS ger CHVBK ALV 9781416594987 1416594981 9781416594994 (pbk.) 141659499X (pbk.) (OCoLC)637357783 PS 3573 W151s 2009 813/.54 GRAL Walbert, Kate. A short history of women : a novel / Kate Walbert. New York : Scribner, 2009. 239 p. ; 21 cm. A 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. Women Fiction. Novela estadounidense. lcc bk KK C0 DRFGD 85692 85692 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2023-04-10 1 0 PS 3573 W151s 2009 00000087545 2018-10-25 00:00:00 1 2018-10-25 bk