TY  - BOOK
AU  - Walbert,Kate
TI  - A short history of women: a novel 
SN  - 9781416594987
AV  - PS 3573 W151s 2009
U1  - 813/.54 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - Scribner
KW  - Women
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Novela estadounidense
N2  - 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
ER  -