Leading ladies : American trailblazers / Kay Bailey Hutchison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hutchison, Kay Bailey, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--United States--Biography.

Women.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xv, 396 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Harper, [2007]

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780061138249 :

006113824X

OCLC:

150342507