Herstory : women who changed the world

Book 1995

A collection of short biographies offers sketches of the lives and accomplishments of 150 of history's most influential and brilliant women, including Clara Barton, the legendary Trung Sisters of medieval Vietnam, and others.

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ISBN:

9780670854349
0670854344

Description:

xv, 304 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-297) and indexes

Contents:

Queen Hatshepsut
Sappho
Aspasia
Cleopatra
The Trung sisters
Boudica
Hypatia
Empress Theodora
Wu Chao
Murasaki Shikibu
Sultana Razia
Christine de Pizan
Joan of Arc
Queen Isabella I
La Malinche
Catherine de Médicis
Queen Elizabeth I
Mary Queen of Scots
Artemisia Gentileschi
Judith Leyster
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
Catherine the Great
Mary Wollstonecraft
Deborah Sampson
Jane Austen
Emma Willard
Sacajawea
Sarah Grimké and Angelina Grimké
La Pola
Sojourner Truth
Catharine Beecher
Dorothea Dix
Margaret Fuller Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Tubman
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Charlotte Brontë and Emily Brontë
Maria Mitchell
Clara Schumann
Queen Victoria
Susan B. Anthony
Florence Nightingale
Elizabeth Blackwell
Clara Barton
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
Lakshmi Bai
Emily Dickinson
Louisa May Alcott
Tz'u-hsi
Queen Liliuokalani
Sarah Bernhardt
Mary Cassatt
Sarah Winnemucca
Carry Nation
Louisa Lawson
Olive Schreiner
Fannie Farmer
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Jane Addams
Ida B. Wells
Beatrix Potter
Marie Curie
Sophia Hayden
Alexandra David-Neel
Emma Goldman
Rosa Luxemburg
Maria Montessori
Alexandra Kollontai
Qiu Jin
Mary McLeod Bethune
Huda Shaarawi
Margaret Sanger
Helen Keller
Anna Pavlova
Virginia Woolf
Rose Schneiderman
Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel
Eleanor Roosevelt
Georgia O'Keeffe
Gabriela Mistral
Ichikawa Fusae
Bessie Smith
Martha Graham
Marian Anderson
Amelia Earhart
Golda Meir
Zora Neale Hurston
Margaret Mead
Margaret Bourke-White
Greta Garbo
Frida Kahlo
Rachel Carson
Simone de Beauvoir --Mother Teresa
Mildred "Babe" Didrikson
Mary Leakey
Indira Gandhi
Jessie Lopez De La Cruz
Eva Perón
Betty Friedan
Diane Arbus
Shirley Chisholm
Margaret Thatcher
Nguyen Thi Binh
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Violeta Chamorro
Toni Morrison
Corazon Aquino
Barbara Jordan
Valentina Tereshkova
Marian Wright Edelman
Wilma Rudolph
Billie Jean King
Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams
Antonia Novello
Aung San Suu Kyi
Wilma Mankiller
Eka Esu-Williams
Rigoberta Menchú

LCCN:

94061492

Control Number:

57156

Other Authors:

Ashby, Ruth
Ohrn, Deborah Gore

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