Provides capsule views of 100 outstanding women who changed the course of world history, beginning with Queen Makare Hatshepsut and concluding with Rigoberta Menchu.
112 pages : illustrations, maps, photographs, portraits ; 23 cm
Other Title:
One hundred women who shaped world history 100 women One hundred women
Notes:
Spine title: 100 women Includes index
Contents:
Queen Makare Hatshepsut Deborah Sappho (Psappho) Aspasia Cleopatra VII Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ Boadicea (Boudicca) St. Helena Zenobia (Septimia Bat Zabbai) Hypatia Theodora Eleanor of Aquitaine Queen Tamara (Thamar) Queen Margaret Joan of Arc Isabella I Catherine of Aragon Catherine de Medici Elizabeth I Queen Jinga (Jinga Mbandi) Pocahontas (Matoaka) Mary Wortley Montagu Emilie du Chatelet Catherine the Great Caroline Herschel Catherine Littlefield Greene Marie Lavoisier Mary Wollstonecraft Sophie Germain Elizabeth Fry Mary Fairfax Somerville Sacajawea ("Bird Woman") La Saragossa (Maria Agustin) Lucretia Coffin Mott Catherine Beecher Dorothea Dix Harriet Beecher Stowe Ada Lovelace Charlotte Bronte and Emily Bronte Elizabeth Cady Stanton Lucy Stone Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot) Queen Victoria Susan Brownell Anthony Florence Nightingale Harriet Tubman Clara Barton Elizabeth Blackwell Mary Baker Eddy Lakshmi Bai, Rani of Jhansi Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones) Lousia May Alcott Sophia Jex-Blake Annie Besant Emma Lazarus Emmeline Pankhurst amd Christabel Pankhurst Carrie Chapman Catt Jane Addams Mary Kingsley Marie Curie Sarah Breedlove Walker Gertrude Bell Alice Hamilton Rosa Luxemburg Maria Montessori Julia Morgan Mary McLeod Bethune Helen Keller Frances Perkins Emmy Noether Margaret Higgins Sanger Eleanor Roosevelt Karen Horney Sister Elizabeth Kenny Louise Boyd Lucila Godey Alcaya (Gabriela Mistral) Agatha Christie Martha Graham Anna Freud Amelia Earhart Golda Meir Margaret Mead Marian Anderson Margaret Bourke-White Rachel Carson Mother Teresa Rosa Parks Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias Indira Gandhi Betty Friedan Shirley Chisholm Margaret Thatcher Anne Frank Toni Morrison Corazon Aquino Valentina Tereshkova Marian Wright Edelman Rigoberta Menchu
