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Great lives from history. American women

Summary: This new addition to the Great Lives from History series features over 700 essays on women from the seventeenth through the early twenty-first centuries. Many individuals included in this multi-volume set have never been covered in this series before, notable for their work in such fields as politics, civil rights, literature, education, journalism, science, business, and sports -- Publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781619259447
  • ISBN: 1619259443
  • ISBN: 9781682172247
  • ISBN: 1682172244
  • ISBN: 9781682172254
  • ISBN: 1682172252
  • ISBN: 9781682172261
  • ISBN: 1682172260
  • Physical Description: print
    3 volumes (continuous pagination) : illustrations ; 27 cm.
  • Edition: [First edition].
  • Publisher: Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2016]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 1303-1379) and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note: VOLUME 1: Publisher's Note -- Editor's Introduction -- Bella Abzug -- Abigail Adams -- Jane Addams -- Stella Adler -- Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz -- Toshiko Akiyoshi -- Madeleine Albright -- Louisa May Alcott -- Isabel Allende -- Linda Alvarado -- Julia Alvarez -- Mabel Alvarez -- Marian Anderson -- Maya Angelou -- Susan B. Anthony -- Mary Antin -- Gloria Anzaldua -- Virginia Apgar -- Diane Arbus -- Hannah Arendt -- Dorothy Arzner -- Ruth Asawa -- Mary Kay Ash -- Lauren Bacall -- Joan Baez -- Pearl Bailey -- Ella Baker -- Josephine Baker -- Emily Greene Balch -- Lucille Ball -- Theda Bara -- Gertrudis Barcelo -- Djuna Barnes -- Lynda Barry -- Clara Barton -- Charlotta Spears Bass -- Daisy Bates -- Mary Catherine Bateson -- Kathleen Battle -- Mary R. Beard -- Louise Beavers -- Alison Bechdel -- Catharine Beecher -- Pura Belpre -- Ruth Benedict -- Ingrid Bergman -- Mary McLeod Bethune -- Elizabeth Blackwell -- Katharine Burr Blodgett -- Amelia Bloomer -- Judy Blume -- Nellie Bly -- Grace Lee Boggs -- Marita Bonner -- Kate Bornstein -- Margaret Bourke-White -- Sister Thea Bowman -- Anne Bradstreet -- Carol E. Moseley Braun -- Margaret Brent -- Fanny Brice -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Joyce Brothers -- Charlotte Hawkins Brown -- Molly Brown -- Olympia Brown -- Susan Brownmiller -- Pearl S. Buck -- Charlotte Bunch -- Abigail Van Buren -- Julia de Burgos -- Yvonne Brathwaite Burke -- Frances Hodgson Burnett -- Nannie Helen Burroughs -- Octavia E. Butler -- Lydia Cabrera -- Maria Callas -- Annie Jump Cannon -- Luisa Capetillo -- Barbara Carrasco -- Rachel Carson -- Mary Ann Shadd Cary -- Lourdes Casal -- Rosie Casals -- Mary Cassatt -- Willa Cather -- Carrie Chapman Catt -- Eileen Chang -- Iris Chang -- Elaine L. Chao -- Elizabeth Catlett -- Anna Chen Chennault -- Judy Chicago -- Julia Child -- Lydia Maria Child -- Alice Childress -- Shirley Chisholm -- Kate Chopin -- Connie Chung -- Evelyn Cisneros -- Sandra Cisneros -- Septima Poinsette Clark -- Hillary Rodham Clinton -- Josephine Garis Cochran -- Mildred Cohn -- Johnetta B. Cole -- Bessie Coleman -- Patricia Hill Collins -- Betty Comden -- Jill Kerr Conway -- France Anne Cordova -- Martha J. Coston -- Martha P. Cotera -- William and Ellen Craft -- Cheryl Crawford -- Kimberle Williams Crenshaw -- Caresse Crosby -- Celia Cruz -- Imogen Cunningham -- Dorothy Dandridge -- Alexandra Danilova -- Iva Toguri D'Aquino -- Julie Dash -- Angela Davis -- Bette Davis -- Henrietta Vinton Davis -- Lucy S. Dawidowicz -- Dorothy Day -- Agnes de Mille -- Lola Rodriguez de Tio -- Donna de Varona -- Ruby Dee -- Dolores del Rio -- Ruth St. Denis -- Emily Dickinson -- Marlene Dietrich -- Annie Dillard -- Dorothea Dix -- Elizabeth Dole -- Hilda Doolittle -- Helen Gahagan Douglas -- Rita Dove -- Mildred Dresselhaus -- Tammy Duckworth -- Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- Isadora Duncan -- Amelia Earhart -- Edith Maude Eaton -- Mary Baker Eddy -- Marian Wright Edelman -- Joycelyn Elders -- Gertrude Belle Elion -- Sue Kunitomi Embrey -- Mitsuye Endo -- Nora Ephron -- Lousie Erdrich -- Marisol Escobar -- Myrlie Evers-Williams -- Chris Evert -- Lillian Faderman -- Beatrix Jones Farrand -- Jessie Redmon Fauset -- Dianne Feinstein -- Millicent Fenwick -- Edna Ferber -- Geraldine Ferraro -- Carly Fiorina -- Shulamith Firestone -- Ella Fitzgerald -- Eleanor Flexner -- Elizabeth Gurley Flynn -- Betty Ford -- Charlotte Forten -- Abby Kelley Foster -- Lydia Folger Fowler -- Helen Frankenthaler -- Aretha Franklin -- Betty Friedan -- Loie Fuller -- Margaret Fuller -- Matilda Joslyn Gage -- Eva Le Gallienne -- Greta Garbo -- Isabella Stewart Gardner -- Judy Garland / VOLUME 2: Lillian Evelyn Gilbreth -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg -- Nikki Giovanni -- Lillian Gish -- Louise Gluck -- Emma Goldman -- Katharine Graham -- Martha Graham -- Temple Grandin -- Ella Grasso -- Florence Griffith-Joyner -- Angelina Weld Grimke -- Sarah and Angelina Grimke -- Peggy Guggenheim -- Beverly Guy-Sheftall -- Kimiko Hahn -- Sarah Josepha Hale -- Nikki Haley -- Fannie Lou Hamer -- Alice Hamilton -- Lorraine Hansberry -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Patricia Roberts Harris -- Masumi Hayashi -- Helen Hayes -- Rita Hayworth -- Dorothy Height -- Carolyn Heilbrun -- Lillian Hellman -- Sally Hemings -- Audrey Hepburn -- Katharine Hepburn -- Aileen Clarke Hernandez -- Eva Hesse -- Anita Hill -- Oveta Culp Hobby -- Billie Holiday -- Odetta Holmes -- bell hooks -- Grace Murray Hopper -- Lena Horne -- Karen Horney -- Julia Ward Howe -- Dolores Huerta -- Charlayne Hunter-Gault -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Anne Hutchinson -- Ida H. Hyde -- Gwen Ifill -- Inez Haynes Gillmore Irwin -- Helen Hunt Jackson -- Mahalia Jackson -- Mary Putnam Jacobi -- Etta James -- Calamity Jane -- Mae C. Jemison -- Sarah Orne Jewett -- Lady Bird Johnson -- Marion Jones -- Mother Jones -- Erica Jong -- Janis Joplin -- Barbara Jordan -- June Jordan -- Christine Jorgensen -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee -- Pauline Kael -- Michiko Kakutani -- Evelyn Kawamoto -- Helen Keller -- Florence Kelley -- Florynce Kennedy -- Jamaica Kincaid -- Billie Jean King -- Carole King -- Coretta Scott King -- Barbara Kingsolver -- Maxine Hong Kingston -- Jeane Kirkpatrick -- Gladys Knight -- Margaret E. Knight -- Beyonce Knowles -- Yuri Kochiyama -- Mirra Komarovsky -- Lee Krasner -- Barbara Kruger -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross -- Maxine Kumin -- Nancy Kwan -- Stephanie Kwolek -- Jhumpa Lahiri -- Hedy Lamarr -- Ann Landers -- Dorothea Lange -- Susanne K. Langer -- Lillie Langtry -- Nella Larsen -- Julia C. Lathrop -- Estee Lauder -- Emma Lazarus -- Henrietta Swan Leavitt -- Fran Lebowitz -- Ann Lee -- Harper Lee -- Hazel Ying Lee -- Ursula K. LeGuin -- Annie Leibovitz -- Gerda Lerner -- Meridel Le Seuer -- Edmonia Lewis -- Maya Ying Lin -- Mary Todd Lincoln -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -- Belva A. Lockwood -- Anita Loos -- Yolanda M. Lopez -- Bette Bao Lord -- Audre Lorde -- Juliette Gordon Low -- Amy Lowell -- Clare Boothe Luce -- Mary Lyon -- Dolley Madison -- Wilma Mankiller -- Paule Marshall -- Agnes Martin -- Elaine May -- Mary McCarthy -- Barbara McClintock -- Carson McCullers -- Hattie McDaniel -- Margaret Mead -- Chiang Soong Mei-ling -- Margarita Bradford Melville -- Dorothy Reed Mendenhall -- Ana Mendieta -- Lydia Mendoza -- Adah Isaacs Menken -- Louise Meriwether -- Amalia Mesa-Bains -- Ruth Messinger -- Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Kate Millett -- Florence Mills -- Patsy Takemoto Mink -- Carmen Miranda -- Janice Mirikitani -- Maria Mitchell -- Nicholasa Mohr -- Marilyn Monroe -- Lola Montez -- Marianne Moore -- Cherrie Moraga -- Sylvia Morales -- Rita Moreno -- Toni Morrison -- Grandma Moses -- Lucretia Mott -- Mee Moua -- Bharati Mukherjee -- Pauli Murray -- Bess Myerson -- Mira Nair -- Diane Nash -- Maud Nathan -- Carry Nation -- Irene Natividad -- Martina Navratilova -- Louise Nevelson -- Aimee Nezhukumatathil -- Emmy Noether -- Queen Noor -- Indra Nooyi -- Jessye Norman -- Eleanor Holmes Norton -- Antonia Novello -- Rebecca Nurse -- Annie Oakley -- Michelle Obama -- Flannery O'Connor -- Sandra Day O'Connor -- Georgia O'Keeffe -- Hazel R. O'Leary -- Tillie Olsen -- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis -- Yoko Ono -- Katherine Davalos Ortega -- Cynthia Ozick -- Grace Paley -- Alice Freeman Palmer -- Maud Wood Park -- Dorothy Parker -- Pat Parker -- Rosa Parks -- Lucy Parsons -- Dolly Parton -- Ruth Patrick -- Louise Thompson Patterson -- Alice Paul -- Elizabeth Palmer Peabody -- Nancy Pelosi -- Frances Perkins -- Ann Petry -- Mary Pickford -- Molly Picon -- Susan La Flesche Picotte -- Lydia E. Pinkham -- Sylvia Plath -- Katherine Anne Porter -- Leontyne Price -- Sally J. Priesand -- Pearl Primus -- Gilda Radner -- Ma Rainey -- Sara Estela Ramirez -- Ayn Rand -- Jeannette Rankin -- Bernice Johnson Reagon -- Janet Reno -- Judith Resnik -- Condoleezza Rice -- Adrienne Rich -- Ann Richards -- Cecile Richards -- Ellen Swallow Richards -- Renee Richards -- Abby Sage Richardson -- Sally Ride -- Faith Ringgold -- Chita Rivera -- Edith Nourse Rogers -- Mary Joseph Rogers -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Ninotchka Rosca -- Ernestine Rose -- Ethel Rosenberg -- Betsy Ross -- Diana Ross -- Nellie Tayloe Ross -- Mary White Rowlandson -- Ruth Rubin -- Helena Rubinstein -- Wilma Rudolph -- Muriel Rukeyser -- Betye Saar -- Sonia Sanchez -- Sheryl Sandberg -- Margaret Sanger -- May Sarton -- Augusta Savage -- Dorothy Schiff -- Rose Schneiderman -- Hazel Scott -- Saint Elizabeth Seton -- Anne Sexton -- Betty Shabazz -- Ntozake Shange -- Anna Howard Shaw -- Patsy O'Connell Sherman -- Dinah Shore -- Elaine C. Showalter -- Beverly Sills -- Ruth Simmons -- Nina Simone -- Eleanor Smeal -- Anna Deavere Smith -- Bessie Smith -- Margaret Chase Smith -- Patti Smith -- Anna Sokolow -- Hannah Solomon -- Monica Sone -- Susan Sontag -- Sonia Sotomayor -- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Gertrude Stein -- Gloria Steinem -- Maria Stewart -- Lucy Stone -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Meryl Streep -- Barbra Streisand -- Anne Sullivan -- Henrietta Szold -- Toshiko Takaezu -- Marion Talbot -- Maria Tallchief -- Amy Tan -- Mary Tape -- Ida Tarbell -- Helen Brooke Taussig -- Dame Elizabeth Taylor -- Sara Teasdale -- Kateri Tekakwitha -- Maria Telkes -- Shirley Temple -- Mary Church Terrell -- Twyla Tharp -- Estela Portillo Trambley -- Sojourner Truth -- Harriet Tubman -- Barbara W. Tuchman -- Sophie Tucker -- Teresa Urrea -- Sarah Vaughan -- Loreta Janeta Velazquez -- Diana Vreeland -- Lillian D. Wald -- Alice Walker -- Madam C. J. Walker -- Margaret Walker -- Barbara Walters -- Mercy Otis Warren -- Wendy Wasserstein -- Alice Waters -- Faye Wattleton -- Ida B. Wells-Barnett -- Eudora Welty -- Dorothy West -- Mae West -- Edith Wharton -- Phillis Wheatley -- Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney -- Hazel Wightman -- Laura Ingalls Wilder -- Emma Willard -- Frances Willard -- Mary Lou Williams -- Serena Williams -- Oprah Winfrey -- Victoria Woodhull -- Fanny Bullock Workman -- Frances Wright -- Jane Cooke Wright -- Rosalyn Yalow -- Anzia Yezierska -- Babe Didrikson Zaharias -- Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska / APPENDIXES: Chronological List of Entries -- Filmography -- Organizations and Societies - Bibliography / INDEXES: Category Index -- Subject Index.
Source of Description Note:
Edition statement supplied by publisher.
Subject: Women United States Biography

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  • 3 of 3 copies available at Kirtland Community College.

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