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Brazen : rebel ladies who rocked the world
Culottées. English
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With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Penelope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world famous, some little known. From Nell...
With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Penelope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world famous, some little known. From Nellie Bly to Mae Jemison or Josephine Baker to Naziq al-Abid, the stories in this comic biography are sure to inspire the next generation of rebel ladies.
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- Creator
- Pénélope Bagieu ; English translation by Montana Kane
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- First American edition
- New York : First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press, 2018
- Physical Details
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- 291 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781626728691, 1626728690, 9781626728684, 1626728682, 9781785039034, 1785039032
- OCLC
- ocn974484628
- "Originally published in French by Gallimard in 2016 as Culottées: Des femmes qui ne font que ce quʹelles veulent, tome I and in 2017 as Culottées: Des femmes qui ne font que ce quʹelles veulent, tome II"--Colophon.
- Translated from the French.
- Clémentine Delait, bearded lady -- Nzinga, Queen of Ndongo and Matamba -- Margaret Hamilton, terrifying actress -- Las Mariposas, rebel sisters -- Josephina van Gorkum, obstinate lover -- Lozen, warrior and shaman -- Annette Kellerman, mermaid -- Delia Akeley, explorer -- Josephine Baker, dancer, French Resistance fighter, matriarch -- Tove Jansson, painter, creator of Trolls -- Agnodice, gynecologist -- Leymah Gbowee, social worker -- Giorgina Reid, lighthouse keeper -- Christine Jorgensen, reluctant celebrity -- Wu Zetian, empress -- Temple Grandin, animal whisperer -- Sonita Alizadeh, rapper -- Cheryl Bridges, athlete -- Therésè Clerc, utopian realist -- Betty Davis, singer-songwriter -- Nellie Bly, journalist -- The Shaggs, rock stars -- Katia Krafft, volcanologist -- Jesselyn Radack, lawyer -- Hedy Lamarr, actress and inventor -- Naziq al-Abid, activist aristocrat -- Frances Glessner Lee, crime miniaturist -- Mae Jemison, astronaut -- Peggy Guggenheim, lover of modern art
Subjects
- Delait, Clémentine -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Nzinga, Queen of Matamba, 1582-1663 -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Hamilton, Margaret, 1902-1985 -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Mirabal, Patria, 1924-1960 -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Mirabal, Minerva, 1926-1960 -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Mirabal, María Teresa, 1936-1960 -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Mirabal, Dedé -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Gorkum, Josephina van -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Lozen -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Kellermann, Annette, 1886-1975 -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Akeley, Delia J. (Delia Julia), 1875?-1970 -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975 -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Jansson, Tove -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Agnodice -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Gbowee, Leymah -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Reid, Giorgina -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Jorgensen, Christine, 1926-1989 -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Wu hou, Empress of China, 624-705 -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Grandin, Temple -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Alizadeh, Sonita -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Bridges, Cheryl -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Clerc, Therese -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Davis, Betty, 1944-2022 -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Bly, Nellie, 1864-1922 -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Shaggs (Musical group) -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Krafft, Katia -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Radack, Jesselyn -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Lamarr, Hedy, 1913-2000 -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- ʻĀbid, Nāzik -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Lee, Frances Glessner, 1878-1962 -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Jemison, Mae, 1956- -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Guggenheim, Peggy, 1898-1979 -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Women -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Comic books, strips, etc. -- France -- Translations into English.
- Graphic novels.
Children's Subject Heading
- Women -- Biography -- Cartoons and comics.
Children's Subject Heading
- Cartoons and comics.
Children's Subject Heading
- Women -- history.
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