Women of vision : their psychology, circumstances, and success /
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 Roose...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Springer Pub.,
©2007.
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| Series: | Springer series, focus on women.
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Table of Contents:
- Dancing women's freedom : the story of Isadora Duncan / Miriam Roskin Berger, Ilene A. Serlin and Mary Anne Siderits
- Anne Sullivan Macy and Helen Adams Keller : expressing "vision" with fluttering fingers / Hendrika Vande Kemp
- Lillian Evelyn Moller Gilbreth : the woman who "had it all" / Melba J.T. Vasquez
- Alice Paul : constitutional amendment mover and ERA author / Carole A. Rayburn
- Georgia O'Keeffe : American modernist / Lillian Cartwright
- Mary McLeod Bethune : voice of change, life of service / Karen Fraser Wyche and Lisa Abern
- Anne Eleanor Roosevelt : the evolution of an extraordinary leader / Agnes N. O'Connell
- Rachel Carson : the strength of wonder / Ravenna Helson
- "Be-going" : the story of Dorothy Day / Mary Anne Siderits
- Sister Annette Walter's unfinished dream : "to make the universe a home" / Eileen A. Gavin
- Evelyn Gentry Hooker : the "hopelessly heterosexual" psychologist who normalized homosexuality / Joanne Quarfoth Floyd and Lynda Anne Szymanski
- Athlete of the century : "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias / Lee Joyce Richmond
- Lucille Ball : visions of trauma, crisis, and comedy / Calvin Saxton
- Grace Brewster Murray Hopper : the woman who dared and did / Debra Sue Pate
- Ella Fitzgerald : the singer's singer / Beverly Greene
- Shirley Chisholm : a catalyst for change / Barbara L. Biales
- Case of the purloined picture : Rosalind Franklin and the keystone of the double helix / Michael Wertheimer.