| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 311 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Springer series, focus on women |
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Springer series, focus on women.
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| Contents |
Dancing women's freedom : the story of Isadora Duncan / Miriam Roskin Berger, Ilene A. Serlin and Mary Anne Siderits -- Anne Sullivan Macy and Helen Adams Keller : expressing "vision" with fluttering fingers / Hendrika Vande Kemp -- Lillian Evelyn Moller Gilbreth : the woman who "had it all" / Melba J.T. Vasquez -- Alice Paul : constitutional amendment mover and ERA author / Carole A. Rayburn -- Georgia O'Keeffe : American modernist / Lillian Cartwright -- Mary McLeod Bethune : voice of change, life of service / Karen Fraser Wyche and Lisa Abern -- Anne Eleanor Roosevelt : the evolution of an extraordinary leader / Agnes N. O'Connell -- Rachel Carson : the strength of wonder / Ravenna Helson -- "Be-going" : the story of Dorothy Day / Mary Anne Siderits -- Sister Annette Walter's unfinished dream : "to make the universe a home" / Eileen A. Gavin -- Evelyn Gentry Hooker : the "hopelessly heterosexual" psychologist who normalized homosexuality / Joanne Quarfoth Floyd and Lynda Anne Szymanski -- Athlete of the century : "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias / Lee Joyce Richmond -- Lucille Ball : visions of trauma, crisis, and comedy / Calvin Saxton -- Grace Brewster Murray Hopper : the woman who dared and did / Debra Sue Pate -- Ella Fitzgerald : the singer's singer / Beverly Greene -- Shirley Chisholm : a catalyst for change / Barbara L. Biales -- Case of the purloined picture : Rosalind Franklin and the keystone of the double helix / Michael Wertheimer |
| Summary |
Talks about the role of circumstance, accomplishments, and personality in the development of various twentieth-century women of vision. This book helps in understanding female leaders and gives insight into the lives of such imminent women as: Isadora Duncan; Georgia O'Keefe; Anna Eleanor Roosevelt; Alice Paul; Ella Fitzgerald; and others |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Women -- United States -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Women.
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Women
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gavin, Eileen A.
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Clamar, Aphrodite J.
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Siderits, Mary Anne.
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| LC no. |
2006101372 |
| ISBN |
9780826101105 |
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0826101100 |
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1280823429 |
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9781280823428 |
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9780826102539 |
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0826102530 |
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