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Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights Kindle Edition

by Mikki Kendall (Author), A. D'Amico (Illustrator) Format: Kindle Edition
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A bold and gripping graphic history of the fight for women’s rights by the New York Times bestselling author of Hood Feminism
“A beautifully drawn, hold-no-punches, surprisingly deep dive through the history of women's rights around the world, which will entrance kids and adults alike.”—N. K. Jemisin, Hugo Award–winning author of the Broken Earth trilogy
 
The ongoing struggle for women’s rights has spanned human history, touched nearly every culture on Earth, and encompassed a wide range of issues, such as the right to vote, work, get an education, own property, exercise bodily autonomy, and beyond. Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists is a fun and fascinating graphic novel–style primer that covers the key figures and events that have advanced women’s rights from antiquity to the modern era. In addition, this compelling book illuminates the stories of notable women throughout history—from queens and freedom fighters to warriors and spies—and the progressive movements led by women that have shaped history, including abolition, suffrage, labor, civil rights, LGBTQ liberation, reproductive rights, and more.

Examining where we've been, where we are, and where we're going, Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists is an indispensable resource for people of all genders interested in the fight for a more liberated future.
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Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists

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Women Rule the World (Kinda!)

The ongoing struggle for women’s rights has spanned human history, touched nearly every culture on Earth, and encompassed a wide range of issues, such as the right to vote, work, get an education, own property, exercise bodily autonomy, and beyond.

Starting with Amazons & Valkyries: Women’s Rights from Antiquity to the Modern Era.

This fun and fascinating graphic novel illustrates the key figures and events that have advanced women’s rights from antiquity to the modern era.

Queens, Freedom Fighters, Warrior Women, and Spies

This book illuminates the stories of notable women throughout history—from queens and freedom fighters to warriors and spies.

Shaping History- One Movement at a Time

Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists highlights the progressive movements led by women that have shaped history, including abolition, suffrage, labor, civil rights, LGBTQ liberation, reproductive rights, and more.

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“This is a beautifully drawn, hold-no-punches, surprisingly deep dive through the history of women's rights around the world, which will entrance kids and adults alike.”—N. K. Jemisin, Hugo Award–winning author of the Broken Earth trilogy
 
“An absolute masterpiece: audacious, unbothered, and utterly brilliant. This thoroughly researched and urgently necessary book needs to be in every classroom, every library, every household, everywhere.”—Daniel José Older, New York Times bestselling author of The Shadowsahper Cypher and Dactyl Hill Squad 
 
 “Whip-smart, hugely entertaining, and unexpectedly moving.”—Alex de Campi, author of Bad Girls and Twisted Romance
 
“Compelling, comprehensive, and gorgeously illustrated, this book is the perfect launchpad for a thousand further investigations into inspiring and influential women.”—Scott Westerfeld, author of Impostors

“Like so much of Mikki Kendall's work, this book is vibrant, active, complicated, funny, and resists easy answers.”—Daniel Mallory Ortberg, author of The Merry Spinster and cofounder of The Toast

About the Author

MIKKI KENDALL is a writer, historian, and diversity consultant who writes about intersectionality, policing, gender, sexual assault, and other current events. Kendall's nonfiction can be found at Time.com, the Guardian, Washington Post, Ebony, Essence, Salon, XoJane, Bustle, Islamic Monthly, and a host of other outlets. Her media appearances include BBC, NPR, Al Jazeera, WVON, WBEZ, TWIB, and Showtime. Her comics work can be found in the Swords of Sorrow anthology, the Princeless charity anthology, and in the Columbus College of Art and Design anthology of 2016.

ASTER D'AMICO is a Cincinnati-born illustrator who loves all things tea, costuming, and history. She graduated from the Columbus College of Art and Design with a BFA in illustration in 2016, and has been creating comics, watercolor paintings, and digital illustrations ever since.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07NKMTMX4
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ten Speed Graphic (November 5, 2019)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 5, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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    Mikki Kendall lives and works in Chicago where she wields words and raises a family. She has a couple of degrees, a couple of kids, and one patient husbeast. A graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and DePaul, Mikki Kendall has been blogging since 2003 under the pen name Karnythia. She has discussed topics ranging from Chicago violence to police brutality, from parenting to racial representation in media, from reproductive health to food insecurity. She has also covered abortion, education, and politics.

    In August of 2013, Mikki started the hashtag #solidarityisforwhitewomen. It sparked a global conversation about racism, solidarity, representation, and access to resources in feminist circles. Her other hashtags (including #fasttailedgirls, #NotJustHello, #AbuserDynamics, #MillenialMammy, #NotYourMandingo, and others designed to make room for hard conversations about feminist issues) have also gone viral. She has written for NBC Think, Washington Post, The Guardian, Ebony, Essence, Publishers Weekly, Global Comment, Salon, xoJane, The Toast, and other online and print markets. She has also been published in several anthologies, both fiction and nonfiction. Her professional comics work includes Swords of Sorrow with Dynamite Comics, and Action Lab’s Princeless Charity Series.

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    She's here, she's Queer, she's ready to make comics! A D'Amico is an Ohio-born illustrator who loves all things tea, historical fashion, and fantasy. She graduated from the Columbus College of Art & Design with a BFA in Illustration and a minor in Creative Writing in 2016, and has enjoyed making art in the mediums of watercolor, brush and ink, and digital in her (sadly cat-less) home in Michigan ever since. You can find more of her work at a-damicoart.com.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book
Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2023
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This is excellently written and drawn and appropriate for all people, middle grade level and up. It is especially important because it highlight the rights white women received before any other women of color did and how often white women work against giving rights to any people of color. Equality means every human being.
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KMcH
5.0 out of 5 stars I did not expect to cry while reading this
Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2019
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The book is what it says it is: a primer on women's history and rights. The power in it, is because we are typically not taught the grey areas of how women can harm, we are not taught the full picture of whose rights take precedence, and we rarely learn about women who are not cisgender, abled, heteronormative, white, or class-privileged. It is a joyful thing to see the beautiful illustrations of women who are often barely mentioned, as well as getting a taste of how women in the prehistoric and ancient world, struggled and flourished. I think this book can be a doorway, for many women and especially for young women and girls, who have maybe never seen their experience as something vital to human history or progress. I finished the book with tears streaming down my face from sheer relief at seeing a fraction of the whole experience acknowledged. With the framing story of a range of young people, I could easily see this as the first in a series. I hope people will gift this to young people in their lives, to show them the possibility that exists and the work that is still to be done.
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Flamingo R.
5.0 out of 5 stars So great!
Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2019
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An incredibly well-written, well-researched book that includes many powerful women through history - including quite a few I had never heard of! I read this with my kids, who absolutely loved it, and it gave us many opportunities to do more research into the amazing women mentioned and learn more about their lives and accomplishments (more of this to come, I expect, as we re-read and get interested in different movements and time periods). I especially appreciated the nuanced treatment of some difficult figures. The illustrations are bold and bright, and overall this is absolutely as good as I hoped and expected. Highly recommended.
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Berni
5.0 out of 5 stars A Must-Have Addition to Any History Library
Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2019
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This was pretty amazing. I had heard of maybe a third of the women featured in this book. It was informative and entertaining. The artwork is lovely, and both writer and artist are careful to be inclusive of just about every woman there is. I can't wait for my great-nieces to grow up a bit more so they will be ready for this.

I bought it on Kindle so I was able to blow up the artwork and examine it more closely. I was thrilled by all the details. I think every woman on the planet could find someone in this book to identify with.
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Krista
4.0 out of 5 stars Lived up to my high expectations!
Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2019
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I was looking forward to this so much that I pre-ordered it, and for the most part it lived up to my extremely (possibly unfairly) high expectations.

This book covers a *lot* of ground and many many women and events, so it can't go into much depth about any of them and it can't touch on everything, due to space constraints. It will probably whet your appetite for more. That's a good thing, even if it's mildly frustrating! This is meant to be a primer and it is one. Some parts are USA-heavy which was fine with me because that's where I live, and so do the authors.

The pages feel nice and sturdy and the artwork is solid, with an especially gorgeous cover. The graphic novel format really worked for me, and I think my kids will want to read it because of that. This book doesn't shy away from tough topics and some violence is shown in the artwork, but not in a scary or glorifying way.

I found some of the transitions and jumping around a bit jarring, but I also can't think of a better way to cover so much material succinctly. Overall the framing device works well: we virtually travel through time and around the world along with a class learning women's history from a futuristic, personified AI program. The students pose questions to the AI and talk a bit with each other, too, but most of the text is the AI character narrating historical events and giving brief biographies.

I wish this book included pronunciation guides for names, both for read-aloud purposes and just for my own edification. Maybe as footnotes in a future edition? I appreciate the index at the back and can envision this being used as a classroom and family resource, as well as being readable as a story. It's not easy to accomplish both of those things in one book, but this one balances them well, and looks good doing it. I hope there is a sequel soon.
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kirabug
5.0 out of 5 stars A fantastic survey of women’s rights
Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2019
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If you’re looking for a graphic history (aka “comic book style”) book that explains the fight for women’s rights, this is the book.

The plot entails a class of young women, who disagree with what the women’s movement is, receiving a tour through history from a purple artificial intelligence.

They cover historical figures from multiple countries, as well as an outline of different systems of rights in different places and times.

They cover suffrage, equal rights, and how women’s rights movements intersect with minority rights, the labor movement, white supremacy, child labor laws, eugenics, misogyny, the civil rights movement, LGTBQIA rights movements, and many other important points in history.

I think Fredrick Douglass might be the only man mentioned by name.

They also cover historical activist figures you may not hear about elsewhere — especially Black, Native American, and Indian folks. I learned more names in this book than I did in 12 years of education last century.

Because it’s a survey more than a textbook, most of what you get is a name and maybe two paragraphs about a person or an event. It’s enough to pique interest and send the reader back to the library. (It’s also probably a good “pick one person from the book to do a report on” resource for teachers.)

I see this book making a place for itself on bookshelves for historians young and old, women who want to know they’re not fighting alone, and the home of anyone who wants to better understand how women fit into the history of the human race.
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Joannie Dupuis
5.0 out of 5 stars Important and stunning
Reviewed in Canada on January 10, 2022
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That book is awesome! It's really educative, empowering and the graphics are just great. Really recommend it.
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