Gender Rebels

50 Influential Cross-Dressers, Impersonators, Name-Changers, and Game-Changers

De: Anneka Harry

Narrado por: Anneka Harry, Maya Jama, Suranne Jones, Gemma Cairney

Includes audio exclusive bonus material: Suranne Jones, Maya Jama, Gemma Cairney and Anneka Harry discuss their favourite Gender Rebels, feminism, their female role models and how women are missing (or misrepresented) in the history books.

Meet the unsung sheroes of history: the diverse, defiant and daring (wo)men who changed the rules, and their identities, to get sh*t done.

You’ll encounter Kit Cavanagh, the swaggering Irish dragoon who was the first woman to be buried in London with full military honours; marauding 18th-century pirates Mary Read and Anne Bonny, who collided on the high seas after swapping their petticoats for pantaloons; Ellen Craft, an escaped slave who masqueraded as a white master to spirit her husband-to-be to freedom; and Billy Tipton, the swinging jazz musician, who led a double life as an adult, taking five wives along the way.

A call to action for the modern world, this book celebrates the #GenderRebels who paved the way for women everywhere to be soldiers and spies; kings and queens; firefighters, doctors, pilots; and a Swiss Army knife’s-worth more. These superbly spirited (wo)men all had one thing in common: they defied the rules to progress in a man’s world.

©2019 Anneka Harry (P)2019 W. F. Howes Ltd

Inspired, Informed & delighted!

I really had not expected to be surprised by the women who's histories were chosen! but, surprised, I was. delightfully so😍
The narrator's (all women) were especially charming❤. loved the pirate story - " the harrrbarrh!"😂

Great book about women

I loved this book. The history in it is rich, and necessary to hear from nuanced narrators. I was surprised to find no trans women in these stories, only (presumably) some trans men. I would love to see and hear a book about all women, trans and otherwise.