Umfang:
Online-Ressource (xx, 311 p)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0826102530
Inhalt:
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
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Cover; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Women Whose Lives Spanned Two Centuries; CH1. Dancing Women's Freedowm: The Story of Isadora Duncan; CH2. Anne Sullivan Macy and Helen Adams Keller: Expressing ""Vision"" With Fluttering Fingers; CH3. Lillian Evelyn Moller Gilbreth: The Woman Who ""Had It All""; CH4. Alice Paul: Constitutional Amendment Mover and ERA Author; CH5. Georgia O'Keeffe: American Modernist; CH6. Mary McLeod Bethune: Voice of Change, Life of Service; CH7 Anna Eleanor Roosevelt: The Evolution of an Extraordinary Leader
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Part II. Women Who Matured During the ""Roaring Twenties""CH8 Rachel Carson: The Strength of Wonder; CH9 "Be-Going": The Story of Dorothy Day; CH10 Sister Annette Walters's Unfinished Dream: "To Make the Universe a Home"; CH11 Evelyn Gentry Hooker: The "Hopelessly Heterosexual" Psychologist Who Normalized Homosexuality; CH12 Athlete of the Century: "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias; CH13 Lucille Ball: Visions of Trauma, Crisis, and Comedy; CH14 Grace Brewster Murray Hopper: A Woman Who Dared and Did; Part III. Women Who Became Adults in the 1940s; CH15 Ella Fitzgerald: The Singer's Singer
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CH16 Shirley Chisholm: A Catalyst for ChangeCH17 The Case of the Purloined Picture: Rosalind Franklin and the Keystone of the Double Helix; Part IV. A Second Look at Our Women of Vision; CH18 A Second Look at Our Women of Vision; Appendix: Study Questions and Activities for Chapters 1 to 17; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780826102539
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Women of Vision : Their Psychology, Circumstances and Success
Sprache:
Englisch
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