Se spune că două capete sunt mai bune decât unul - dar care sunt marile duouri dinamice ale istoriei? În „It Takes Two”, Cathy Newman rescrie câteva momente istorice pentru a oferi o relatare vibrantă și feministă a momentelor extraordinare în care două persoane s-au unit pentru a inova, explora, crea și schimba lumea. De la cupluri căsătorite la surori, de la rivali la prieteni, Newman spune povești chiar și din epoca medievală și din toate colțurile lumii.
They say two heads are better than one - but who are the great dynamic duos of history? In It Takes Two, Cathy Newman rewrites the history books to give a vibrant, feminist account of the extraordinary moments when two people have paired up to innovate, explore, create and change the world. From married couples to sisters, rivals to unlikely friends, Newman tells stories reaching back to medieval history and out to all corners of the world. How did the queer women Katherine Harris Bradley and her niece Edith Emma Cooper dream up and share the literary pseudonym 'Michael Field' so that their writing could be published? How did Amelia Earhart and George 'Mr Earhart' Putnam forge a true marriage of equals and adventure? How did a pair of amateur astronomers in nineteenth century Tulse Hill, London, come together to prove the universe was expanding? Introducing the unacknowledged movers-and-shakers of the past alongside the real stories behind household names, Newman gives a triumphant and unexpected history both of the untold power of collaboration and of how it happens that that one half of the duo is often excluded from the narrative.