Leading ladies

American trailblazers

1st ed.

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Leading ladies

American trailblazers

1st ed.

Presents biographical portraits of pioneering American women who overcame difficult obstacles to gain entry into male-dominated arenas, from medicine and politics to business and the media.

Publish Date
Publisher
Harper
Pages
396

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Table of Contents

The good fight : women in the military
First ladies : the hardest unpaid job in the world
If there's a book you want to read : novelists and journalists
A dream of the future : women's suffrage and civil rights
Everything I discovered was new : women in medicine and public health
Lifting the veil of nature : the Nobel Prize in science
Curing social misery : the settlement house and peace movements
Commitment overcomes adversity : the making of leaders.

Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
920.72, B
Library of Congress
CT3260 .H88 2007

The Physical Object

Pagination
xv, 396 p., [16] p. of plates :
Number of pages
396

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24212204M
ISBN 10
006113824X
ISBN 13
9780061138249
LCCN
2008351764
OCLC/WorldCat
150342507

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