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Champions for peace : women winners of the Nobel Peace Prize / Judith Hicks Stiehm.
LIBRA JZ5540 .S74 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stiehm, Judith.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pacifists--Biography.
- Pacifists.
- Nobel Prizes--History.
- Nobel Prizes.
- Women and peace--History.
- Women and peace.
- Peace--Awards--History.
- Peace.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 233 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2006.
- Contents:
- Preface: In the tradition of Lysistrata : women champions for peace
- Bertha von Suttner : noble woman and noble friend
- Jane Addams : "the greatest woman who ever lived"
- Emily Greene Balch : the dismissed professor
- Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan : sisterhood created by tragedy
- Mother Teresa : from Macedonia to India
- Alva Myrdal : world diplomat
- Aung San Suu Kyi : resisting by staying home
- Rigoberta Menchú Tum : a story that broke the world's heart
- Jody Williams : Internet activist
- Shirin Ebadi : Muslim judge
- Wangari Muta Maathai : Kenya's "green" doctor
- Conclusion: Champions all.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-230) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0742540251 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 074254026X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- OCLC:
- 63171049
- Publisher Number:
- 9780742540255
- 9780742540262
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