Remembering Women

A fascinating, thought-provoking exploration of powerful women's lives in the past and today, showing how important it is that we remember their successes, leadership, independence and equality.

A fascinating, thought-provoking exploration of powerful women's lives in the past and today, showing how important it is that we remember their successes, leadership, independence and equality.

Remembering Women is a truly fascinating book that is subtly radical on every page . Taking a wealth of evidence, Lehnen advocates for us to look again at our history as a source of inspiration to speak out against the status quo. Accessibly written, Lehnen vividly brings the women of the past to light.

In this clever, imaginative and illuminating book, Christine Lehnen takes us on a voyage of exploration through the ways in which we have been conditioned to think about the history of women. She demonstrates that there is nothing natural or inevitable about a historical narrative that subordinates women, and in so doing offers a method for reinventing the present via close and careful attention to the past. The result is thought-provoking and moving in equal measure .

Christine Lehnen's Remembering Women offers a sharp rejoinder to accounts that lament the absence of women from the historical record - arguing that such arguments actually end up shoring up systems of patriarchy. Following an incisive introduction which situates her book within memory studies scholarship, she surveys multiple areas of women's lives and various societies from the ancient past, to demonstrate different ways of being a woman . Above all, Lehnen reminds us, appropriately, that memory is not only about remembering: it is also about remembering, and bringing back, what has been forgotten.

Christine Lehnen is a lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Exeter. She is a regular contributor on feminism, culture, history, archaeology and public memory for outlets such as Aeon , Psyche , The Wire , Antigone, New Lines Magazine, and Deutsche Welle.