Wise women : a celebration of their insights, courage, and beauty / Joyce Tenneson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tenneson, Joyce, 1945-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography of women.

Older women--Portraits.

Older women.

Tenneson, Joyce, 1945-.

Tenneson, Joyce.

Genre:

Portraits.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

143 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Little, Brown and Co., [2002]

Summary:

A celebration of the power and beauty of women in the third phase of their lives. The author traveled throughout the United States to photograph and interview women whose ages range from sixty-five to one hundred. Includes photographs of Deirdre Sullivan, Zelda Kaplan, Betty Silverstein, Dr. Johnnetta Cole, Gloria Steinem, Sophie Saleiman, Hannah Cohen, Natalie Cohen, Lola Santos and her granddaughter Alex, Maezie Murphy, Evelyn Lauder, Fay Gold, Mona Miwako Lutz and China Chow, Brooke Astor, Patricia Neal, Birdie M. Hale, Dina Paisner, Marian Seldes, Licia Albanese, Marilyn Alex, Gloria Larsen, Helen Gurley Brown, Nathalia Bowser, Sadie Simms Allen, Polly Kline, Elaine Alexander, Helen Brown and Nellie Andins, Odetta, Edith Turner and Ruth Turner, Joanna Harris, Madeline Burt and Rgna Solaas, Sister Elise and Sister Mary Christabel, Betsy Brown, Jane Greenwood Edwards, Christine Lee, Aldona Laita, Melissa Hayden, Christine Neubert, Andree Ruellan, Lauren Bacall.

Contents:

Cornelia Bessie, Cicely Tyson, Jan Owen, Mary Hinkson Jackson, Jane Goodall, Paula Laurence and Lily Tomlin, Tammy Grimes, Kitty Carlisle Hart, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Libby Lyman, Ann Richards, Ruth Handler, Joan D'Arcy, Annette Covino and neighbor, Bernie, Mathide Krim, Clara Holm, Lenore Reichart and Helen Reichart, Ann Sederocanellis and Staphanie Lienhard, Lilo Raymond, Mimi Weddell, Jeanie MacPherson, Dolores Fleming, Jessica Tandy, Liz Smith, Tippi Hedren, Dame Judi Dench, Ann Cole and Fran Rappaport, Phyllis Silverman, Geraldine Smnith, Krista Gottlieb, Kathleen Kenyon, Colleen Kenyon, Kathleen R. Kenyon, Angelita Martinez and Constance Mirabal, Julie Harris, Geraldine Ferraro, Trisha Brown, Ingerborg Ten Haeff, Coretta Scott King, Angela Lansbury, and Elva Azzara.

Notes:

"A Bulfinch Press book."

ISBN:

0821228013

9780821228012

0821228188

9780821228180

OCLC:

48383461

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