Cómo las mujeres (también) construyeron el mundo

Inspired by the overwhelming response to Mosse's global social media campaign under the hashtag #WomanInHistory, which launched in 2021, this important work of nonfiction compiles, in a rich and detailed way, more than 1,000 voices of non-white women. heard or little heard. It also offers us the following vital question: how and why have women's achievements been routinely omitted from history books and what are the consequences of telling only half of our human story? In these pages, you will meet almost 1,000 women whose names deserve to be better known: - women who dedicated their lives to the natural world or medicine; - brave women who resisted and fought for what they believed in to defend their families, their culture and their countries; - unsung heroines of stage and screen. Traveling around the world and spanning all periods of history, this is also an intensely moving detective story about the author's own family history, as Kate Mosse reconstructs the forgotten life of her great-grandmother, Lily Watson, a novelist. famous and highly successful in its time and of which today no one knew its existence.