Ahead of their time : a biographical dictionary of risk-taking women / Joyce Duncan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duncan, Joyce, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Biography--Dictionaries.

Women--Biography.

Genre:

Dictionaries.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 312 pages : portraits ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002.

Summary:

A unique collection of profiles of 75 daring women who pushed ahead with the spirit of adventure and made pioneering contributions on land, in the sea and in the skies.

Contents:

Harriet Chalmers Adams 1

Joy Friederike Victoria Gessner Adamson 7

Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz 13

Delia Denning Akeley 17

Mary Lenore Jobe Akeley 23

Jacqueline Marie-Therese Suzanne Douet Auriol 27

Isabelle Autissier 31

Ann Bancroft 37

Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell 43

Ruth Fulton Benedict 49

Gertrude Benham 55

Isabella Lucy Bird Bishop 59

Arlene Blum 65

Margaret Bourke-White 69

Louise Arner Boyd 73

Susan Butcher 77

Rachel Louise Carson 83

Lucy Evelyn Cheesman 87

Eugenie Clark 91

Geraldyn "Jerrie" Cobb 97

Jacqueline Cochran 103

Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman 109

Eileen Marie Collins 115

Alexandra David-Neel 119

Meta Ann "Annie" Doak Dillard 125

Florence Catherine Douglas Dixie 129

Amelia Earhart 133

Dian Fossey 141

Clare Mary Francis 147

Birute Marija Filomena Galdikis 153

Jane Goodall 159

Ernestine "Dee Dee" Green 165

Beatrice Ethel Grimshaw 169

Marguerite Elton Baker Harrison 173

Mae Carol Jemison 179

Amy Johnson 183

Mary Henrietta Kingsley 189

Monica Kristensen 195

Anne LaBastille 201

Sharon Christa Corrigan McAuliffe 207

Beryl Clutterbuck Markham 211

Margaret Mead 217

Sylvia Earle Mead 223

Ruth Nichols 229

Valentina Tereshkova Nikolayev 235

Marianne North 239

Diana Sneed Nyad 245

Annie Smith Peck 249

Harriet Quimby 255

Sally Kristen Ride 261

Freya Stark 265

Junko Istibashi Tabei 271

Alexandrine Petronella "Alexine" Tinne 275

Fanny Bullock Workman 281

Appendix I Vignettes of Other Women 285

Mary Bailey 285

Winifred Blackman 285

Anne Isabella Noel Blunt 286

Diane Doran 286

Gertrude Caroline Ederle 287

Mina A. Ellis 288

Joan Rosita Forbes 288

Sophia Heath 288

Jill Heinerth 289

Jeanne Holm 289

Kara Hultgreen 289

Dora Keen 290

Claude Kogan 290

Elizabeth Hawkins-Whitshed Leblond 290

Jerri Nielsen 291

Edith "Jackie" Ronne 291

Sheila Christine Scott 291

Gertrude Emerson Sen 292

Miriam O'Brien Underhill 292

Mary Vaux Walcott 292

Lucy Walker 293.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-304) and index.

ISBN:

0313316600

OCLC:

47283091