POOR RICHARD’S WOMEN: Deborah Read Franklin and The Other Women Behind the Founding Father, Nancy Rubin Stuart
A vivid portrait of the women who loved, nurtured, and defended America’s famous scientist and founding father. “An engrossing look at the human side of Benjamin Franklin . . . Using a post-feminist lens that’s critical of gender essentialism, Stuart rescues these women from obscurity . . . This is a terrific read: poignant, provocative, […]
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Nancy Rubin Stuart Why do we know so little about women’s lives through history? That’s a question journalist and author Nancy Rubin Stuart has questioned for years – and why she’s devoted her books to chronicling women’s lives. Today as women are again demanding a stronger voice personally, politically and professionally, she’s contemplated the lives […]