More than Petticoats: Remarkable New York Women (More than Petticoats Series)

By Antonia Petrash

Book Overview

More than Petticoats: Remarkable New York Women presents the intriguing biographies of twelve exceptional women who made an impact not just on their home state, but on the nation and the world. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762712236
• ISBN13: 9780762712236
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Falcon Press Publishing
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Little-known women celebrated

A wonderful, easy to read yet informative introduction to some women I knew little about. Thoroughly enjoyable!

Women Who Break the Rules Unite!

It is refreshing to see this book, with its women of various backgrounds and cultures showing the determination to live their lives by the rules they choose, instead of what their individual societies forced upon them at differing times in our history. From the earliest record in what was New Amsterdam, to more recent times, I enjoyed at times a thrilling view of some women of New York I had not heard of but whose nerve and determination helped put women in the position we now enjoy in America, and New York in particular. Women who, in the face of rejection of their communties or downright danger still said "My way or the highway!" This book takes them from their obscurity and shows them as the courageous beings they were. Very inspirational!

Herstory,History and some great New Yorkers

Finally a well written, easy to read yet scholarly work about some fascinating New Yorkers, who just happen to be women. Before television, before the internet, before the vote, the women in this book influence issues as diverse as the Catholic Worker Movement, the Whitney Museum, and the Brooklyn Bridge. The book brings alive their experience, and makes you a partner in their sucess. A must read for anyone with an interest in hertory,history or New York.