Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries brings together Kate’s rich and detailed knowledge of unheard and under-heard women’s history, and of how and why women’s achievements have routinely been omitted from the history books. This beautiful illustrated book is both an alternative feminist history of the world and a personal memoir about the nature of women’s struggles to be heard, about how history is made and by whom. Split into ten sections, each covering a different category of women’s achievements in history, Kate Mosse tells the stories of female inventors and scientists, philanthropists and conservationists, authors and campaigners. It is the most accessible narrative non-fiction with a genuinely diverse, truly global perspective featuring names such as Sophie Scholl, Mary Seacole, Cornelia Sorabji, Helen Suzman, Shirley Chisholm, and Violette Szabo. And in deeply personal passages Kate writes about the life of her great-grandmother, Lily Watson, where she turns detective to find out why she has all but disappeared from the record.

本書は、歴史の闇に葬られた女性たちの声を鮮烈に蘇らせる「記憶の奪還」の記録です。ケイト・モスの筆致は記録者の域を超え、自身のルーツを追う執念と先人への情愛に満ちています。個人の情熱が公の歴史を書き換えていくプロセスこそが、読者の魂を揺さぶる文学的な白眉といえるでしょう。 映像化作品では彼女たちの勇姿が躍動感をもって再現される一方、書籍は映像で零れ落ちがちな内面の葛藤を深く掘り下げます。映像でその姿を目に焼き付け、本書で精神の深淵に触れる。この相乗効果こそが、沈黙を力強い咆哮へと変える、現代最高の知的興奮を約束してくれるのです。