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Brazen : rebel ladies who rocked the world

Title
Brazen : rebel ladies who rocked the world / Pénélope, Bagieu ; English translation by Montana Kane.
Author
Bagieu, Pénélope
Publication
  • New York : First Second, an imprint of Roaring Book Press, 2018.
  • ©2018

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Additional Authors
  • Kane, Montana
  • Schomburg Children's Collection.
Description
291 pages : color illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
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.
Uniform Title
Culottées. English
Alternative Title
  • Culottées.
  • Rebel ladies who rocked the world
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Biographical comics.
  • Comic books, strips, etc.
  • Comics (Graphic works)
  • Graphic novels.
  • Nonfiction comics.
  • Translations.
Note
  • "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.
Audience (note)
  • Young Adult.
  • 770
Language (note)
  • Translated from the French.
Contents
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 Revolution 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 -- Jesseyln 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.
Call Number
Sc D 18-322
ISBN
  • 9781626728691
  • 1626728690
  • 9781626728684
  • 1626728682
  • 9781785039034
  • 1785039032
LCCN
2017941160
OCLC
974484628
Author
Bagieu, Pénélope, author, illustrator.
Title
Brazen : rebel ladies who rocked the world / Pénélope, Bagieu ; English translation by Montana Kane.
Publisher
New York : First Second, an imprint of Roaring Book Press, 2018.
Copyright Date
©2018
Edition
First American edition.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Audience
Young Adult.
770 Lexile.
Language
Translated from the French.
Added Author
Kane, Montana, translator.
Schomburg Children's Collection.
Research Call Number
Sc D 18-322
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