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A to Z of women in world history

Details the lives of 260 women of historical importance arranged by their contributions to religion, science, politics, journalism, the performing arts, education, the visual arts, and women's rights. A specialist in women's history, Kuhlman (western civilization, Washington State Univ.) offers general readers profiles of extraordinary women throughout human history. The entries themselves are alphabetical, but within topical sections that are also alphabetical. Among them are adventurers and athletes, performers, political activists, science and health practitioners, and writers. Appendices list entries by country and century; names are included in the index. This single volume encyclopedia of important women throughout history and from all parts of the world groups' lively, engrossing biographies, according to their subjects' major claims to fame. Chapters on women adventurers and athletes (Mata Hari, Babe Didrikson), religious figures (Hildegard von Bingen, Mirabai), scientists (Agnodike, Rosalind Franklin), artists (Artemisia Gentileschi, Maya Lin), journalists (Nellie Bly, Elizabeth Mallet), fashion figures (Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Madame de Pompadour), and more focus readers' attention on the women themselves and their accomplishments. The entries range deep into their subjects' lives, linking their formative experiences with their later achievements. The biographies' depth and detail set the book apart from its competitors
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Adivar, Halide
Agnodike
Aidoo, Ama Ata
Aishah
Allende, Isabel
Andre, Valerie
Angelou, Maya
Anthony, Susan B
Apostoloy, Electra
Aquino, Corazon
Arendt, Hannah
Argentinita, La
Armand, Inessa
Artemisia I
Aung San Suu Kyi
Aylward, Gladys
Ba, Mariama
Bach, Anna Magdalena
Bai, Lakshmi
Baker, Josephine
Bandaranaike, Sirimavo
Barrios de Chungara, Domitila
Bassi, Laura
Beale, Dorothea
Beaufort, Margaret
Beauvoir, Simone de
Beech, Olive
Behn, Aphra
Benetton, Giuliana
Bernhardt, Sarah
Bernstein, Aline
Bhutto, Benazir
Bishop, Hazel
Blackwell, Elizabeth
Blankers-Koen, Fanny
Bloomer, Amelia
Blunt, Anne
Bly, Nellie
Bocanegra, Gertrudis
Bol Poel, Martha
Bonney, Anne
Borgia, Lucrezia
Bose, Abala
Bouboulina, Laskarina
Boudicca
Bouhired, Djamila
Boulanger, Nadia
Boupacha, Djamila
Bourgeois, Louyse
Bourke-White, Margaret
Bradwell, Myra
Bremer, Fredrika
Brigid, St
Buck, Pearl S
Bunke, Tamara
Butcher, Susan
Carreno, Teresa
Carson, Rachel
Cassatt, Mary
Catherine II
Chanel, Coco
Child, Julia
Cho Wha Soon
Christine de Pizan
Cleopatra VII
Clicquot, Veuve
Cole, Johnnetta
Comnena, Anna
Cruz, Sor Juana Ines de la
Cunitz, Maria
Curie, Marie
Darling, Grace
David-Neel, Alexandra
Davies, Arabella Jenkinson
Deborah
Dickinson, Emily
Ding Ling
Eddy, Mary Baker
Egeria
Eliot, George
Elizabeth I
Emecheta, Buchi
Endo Hatsuko
Eng, Melinda
Evert, Chris
Fallaci, Oriana
Fatima
Figueroa, Ana
Fini, Leonor
Frank, Anne
Franklin, Aretha
Franklin, Rosalind
Freud, Anna
Frith, Mary
Gandhi, Indira
Gellhorn, Martha
Gentileschi, Artemisia
Gerin-Lajoie, Marie
Germain, Sophie
Goegg, Marie
Goldman, Emma
Goodall, Jane
Graham, Martha
Green, Hetty
Guggenheim, Peggy
Hadcwijch of Antwerp
Hani Motoko
Hatshepsut
Hayashi Fumiko
He Xiangning
Head, Bessie
Henie, Sonja
Herrade of Landsberg
Hildegard von Bingen
Hiratsuka Raicho
Hsi Kai Ching
Hypatia
Ichikawa Fusae
Isabella I
Jabavu, Noni
Jacobs, Aletta
Jacobs, Harriet A
Jahan, Nur
James, Naomi
Jemison, Mae
Jinnah, Fatima
Joan of Arc
Joan, Pope
Kadeer, Rebiya
Kahlo, Frida
Kairi, Evanthia
Kanawa, Kiri Te
Kartini, Adjeng
Kawakubo Rei
Kelly, Petra
Kempe, Margery
al-Khansa
Kingston, Maxine Hong
Kollwitz, Kathe
Kuan Tao-sheng
Kyo Machiko
Lange, Dorothea
Langer, Susanne
Lee, Ann
L'Epine, Margherita de
Lin, Maya
Lind, Jenny
Lockwood, Belva
Lukens, Rebecca
Luxemburg, Rosa
Maathai, Wangari Muta
Macaulay, Catharine Sawbridge
Winnie
Madison, Dolley
Magona, Sindiwe
Mahaprajapati
Mallet, Elizabeth
Mamaea, Julia
Mankiller, Wilma
Marcos, Imelda
Maria the Jewess
Markham, Beryl
Mata Hari
McAlisky, Bernadette
McClintock, Barbara
Mead, Margaret
Meer, Fatima
Meir, Golda
Menchu, Rigoberta
Mirabai
Mistral, Gabriela
Montessori, Maria
Morata, Olympia
Morrell, Lady Ottoline
Moses, Grandma
Murasaki Shikibu
Naidu, Sarojini
Nation, Carry
Nevelson, Louise
Ngoyi, Lilian
Nguyen Thi Binh
Nhongo, Teurai Ropa
Nightingale, Florence
O'Connor, Sandra Day
Oduyoye, Merry Amba
Okamoto Ayako
O'Keeffe, Georgia
Okuni
Okwei, Omu
Olympe de Gouges
Onassis, Jackie
Ovington, Mary Whit
Palatinate, Madame
Parks, Rosa
Pavlova, Ann
Pedersen, Helga
Peron, Evita
Pitcher, Molly
Plamnikova, Franciska
Pompadour, Madame de
Post, Emily
Potter, Beatrix
Primus, Pearl
Qiu Jin
Ramphele, Mamphela
Ransome-Kuti, Funmilayo
Ratia, Armi
Rau, Dhanvanthi Rama
Razia, Sultana
Reibey, Mary
Rodnina, Irina
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Rudolph, Wilma
Saadawi, Nawal el
Sacagawea
Sampson Gannet, Deborah
Sappho
Schumann, Clara Wieck
Seacole, Mary
Seton, Elizabeth
Sha'rawi, Huda
Shaw, Flora
Slessor, Mary
Sontag, Susan
Sorabji, Cornelia
Stael, Madame de
Stanhope, Hester
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
Stark, Freya
Stein, Edith
Tabei Junko
Teresa of Avila
Teresa, Mother
Tereshkova, Valentina
Terry, Ellen
Tescon, Trinidad
Thatcher, Margaret
Trivulzio, Cristina
Trubnikova, Mariya
Truth, Sojourner
Tuchman, Barbara
Tussaud, Mada
Undset, Sigrid
Walker, Madame C.J
Wertmuller, Lina
West, Mae
Wheatley, Phillis
Willard, Frances
Winfrey, Opra
Wolfe, Elsie de
Wollstonecraft, Mary
Woodhull, Victoria
Xiang Jingyu
Xide Xie
Yourcenar, Marguerite
Zaharias, Babe Didrikson
Zhang Ruifang
Zheng Xiaoying