Description |
174 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm |
Summary |
Starting in the fifth century BCE and continuing to the present, Lee introduces readers to bold and inspiring women who dared to step outside traditional gender roles of their time. |
Contents |
Express Xi Ling Shi -- Hatshepsut -- Agnodice -- Tru'ng Tr̐ac & Tru'ng Nhị -- Queen Arawelo -- Fatima Al-Fihri -- Murasaki Shikibu -- Khutulun -- Sayyida Al-Hurra -- Mochizuki Chiyome -- Doña Ana Lezama de Urinza & Doña Eustaquia de Sonza -- Lady Margaret Cavendish -- King Christina of Sweden -- Julie d'Aubigny -- Sybilla Masters -- Sybil Ludington -- Anne Lister -- Ching Shih -- Mary Anning -- Mary Seacole -- Frederike Mandelbaum -- Lakshmibai, the Rani of Jhansi -- Stagecoach Mary Fields -- Isabella Stewart Gardner -- Emily Warren Roebling -- Buffalo Calf Road Woman -- Mary Bowser & Bet Van Lew -- Marie Duval -- Fannie Farmer -- Juliette Gordon Low -- Annie Jump Cannon -- Clelia Duel Mosher -- Sarah Breedlove -- Edith Garrud -- Emmy Noether -- Alice Ball -- Dorothy Arzner -- Nwanyeruwa -- Rukmini Devi Arundale -- Mariya Oktyabrskaya -- Irene Sendler -- Ursula Nordstrom -- Elvira de la Furnte Chaudoir -- Jackie Mitchell -- Noor Inayat Khan -- Fanny Blankers-Koen -- Kumander Liwayway -- Azucena Villaflor -- Angela Morley -- Maria Tallchief -- The Mirabal sisters -- Lorraine Hansberry. |
Subject |
Women -- Biography.
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Women -- History.
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Added Author |
Eriksson, Petra, illustrator.
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Added Title |
52 forgotten women who changed the world |
ISBN |
9781419729256 |
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141972925X |
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