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First edition. |
| Description |
xii, 306 pages : illustrations, portraits (color) ; 26 cm. |
| Summary |
"A stunning collection of 150 portraits of groundbreaking women throughout history--many of whom are unsung or forgotten--by one of the best illustrators working today. In early March 2020, Covid19-locked down in her Toronto home-studio and longing for inspiration, artist Anita Kunz began researching women on the Internet. She wasn't sure what she was looking for, but soon found an array of astonishing people who had done amazing things--some of whom she had heard of, but most of whom she had not. And then she began to paint them and write down their stories--an astonishingly eclectic group, from ancient history to 2020--from Joan of Arc to Josephine Baker to Rachel Carson to Misty Copland. The result is a stunning feat of historical research and artistic achievement"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Brief biographies of groundbreaking women throughout history-- many of whom are unsung or forgotten. Each is an astonishing person who had done amazing things. Each one-paragraph essay is accompanied by a painting of the subject. -- adapted from jacket and perusal of book. |
| Contents |
Reclaiming original sisters by Roxane Gay -- Introduction -- Anonymous -- Saint Æbbe the Younger -- Anna Akhmatova -- Fatima al-Fihri -- Princess Alice of Battenberg -- Amanirenas -- Mary Anning -- Anna Mae Aquash -- Hannah Arendt -- Josephine Baker -- Alice Ball -- Patricia Bath -- Amalie Auguste Melitta Bentz -- Alice Guy Blaché -- Ada Blackjack -- Lorena Borjas -- Boudicca -- Breffu -- Ruby Bridges -- Dorothy Brooke -- Buffalo Calf Road Woman -- Tarana Burke -- Ruth Coker Burks -- Maria Callas -- Rachel Carson -- Queen Charlotte -- Ching Shih -- Shirley Chisholm -- Christine de Pizan -- Camille Claudel -- Jeanne de Clisson -- Nadia Comaneci -- Misty Copeland -- Dorothy Cotton -- Marie Skłodowska Curie -- Angela Davis -- Stormé DeLarverie -- Isadora Duncan -- Ray Kaiser Eames -- Queen Elizabeth I -- Saint Elizabeth of Hungary -- Charlotte Figi -- Eunice Newton Foote -- Anne Frank -- Rosalind Franklin -- Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven -- Elizebeth Friedman -- Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse Garnerin -- Alicia Garza -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg -- Marty Goddard -- Amanda Gorman -- Olympe de Gouges -- Tomoe Gozen -- Temple Grandin -- Elieen Gray -- Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield -- Guerrilla Girls -- Marguerite "Peggy" Guggenheim -- Lorraine Hansberry -- Kamala Devi Harris -- Hatshepsut -- Beulah Louise Henry -- Adelaide Herrmann -- Susan Eloise Hinton -- Hippolyta -- Billie Holiday -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Hypatia -- Saint Joan of Arc -- Emily Pauline Johnson -- Marsha P. Johnson -- Alberta Odell Jones -- Jeffrey Catherine Jones -- Christine Jorgensen -- Margaret Keane -- Margery Kempe -- Corita Kent -- Noor Inayat Khan -- Khutulun -- Hilma af Klint -- Juliane Koepcke -- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross -- Louise Labé -- Lakshmibai -- Hedy Lamarr -- Louise Lecavalier -- Laura Lee -- Mabel Ping-Hua Lee -- Clara Lemlich -- Queen Lili'uokalani -- Annie Londonderry -- Ada Lovelace -- Jean Macnamara -- Elizabeth Magie -- Vivian Maier -- Alice Marble -- Mileva Marić -- Beryl Markham -- Matilda of Tuscany -- Rose Marie McCoy -- Hattie McDaniel -- Margaret Mead -- Lise Meitner -- Maria Sibylla Merian -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu -- Maria Montessori -- Toni Morrison -- Florence Nightingale -- Queen Nzinga -- Freddie Oversteegen -- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin -- Autumn Peltier -- Candace Pert -- Irna Phillips -- Zofia Posmysz -- Ni Gusti Ayu Raka Rasmi -- Ángela Ruiz Robles -- Augusta Savage -- Milunka Savić -- Sophie Scholl -- Irena Sendler -- Huda Shaarawi -- Daphne Shledrick -- Amrita Sher-Gil -- Nina Simone -- Gloria Steinem -- Nettie Stevens -- Ceija Stojka -- Maria Strick -- Yma Sumac -- Peggy Jo Tallas -- Maria Tallchief -- Queen Tamar -- Helen Tamiris -- Valentina Tereshkova -- Sister Rosetta Tharpe -- Empress Theodora -- Greta Thunberg -- Trota of Salerno -- Sojourner Truth -- Remedios Varo -- Maud Wagner -- Madam C. J. Walker -- Mary Edwards Walker -- Aloha Wanderwell -- Ida B. Wells -- Gladys West -- Caroline Earle White -- Anna May Wong -- Empress Wu Zetian -- Stella Young -- Malala Yousafzai. |
| Subject |
Women -- Biography.
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Women -- Portraits.
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Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Biographies.
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Illustrated works.
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Portraits. (OCoLC)fst01423831
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| Added Author |
Gay, Roxane, writer of foreword.
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| Added Title |
Portraits of tenacity and courage |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Kunz, Anita, Original sisters First edition. New York : Pantheon Books, [2021] 9780593316153 (DLC) 2020052308 |
| ISBN |
9780593316146 (hardcover) |
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0593316142 (hardcover) |
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9780593316153 (ebk) |
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