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Women of vision : their psychology, circumstances, and success / editors, Eileen A. Gavin, Aphrodite Clamar, and Mary Anne Siderits.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--United States--Biography.
- Women.
- Feminism--United States.
- Feminism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (333 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Springer Pub., 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 Roosevelt; Alice Paul; Ella Fitzgerald; and others.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Women Whose Lives Spanned Two Centuries; CH1. Dancing Women's Freedom: The Story of Isadora Duncan; CH2. Anne Sullivan Macy and Helen Adams Keller: Expressing ""Vision"" With Fluttering Fingers; CH3. Lillian Evelyn Moller Gilbreth: The Woman Who ""Had It All""; CH4. Alice Paul: Constitutional Amendment Mover and ERA Author; CH5. Georgia O'Keeffe: American Modernist; CH6. Mary McLeod Bethune: Voice of Change, Life of Service; CH7 Anna Eleanor Roosevelt: The Evolution of an Extraordinary Leader
- Part II. Women Who Matured During the ""Roaring Twenties""CH8 Rachel Carson: The Strength of Wonder; CH9 "Be-Going": The Story of Dorothy Day; CH10 Sister Annette Walters's Unfinished Dream: "To Make the Universe a Home"; CH11 Evelyn Gentry Hooker: The "Hopelessly Heterosexual" Psychologist Who Normalized Homosexuality; CH12 Athlete of the Century: "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias; CH13 Lucille Ball: Visions of Trauma, Crisis, and Comedy; CH14 Grace Brewster Murray Hopper: A Woman Who Dared and Did; Part III. Women Who Became Adults in the 1940's; CH15 Ella Fitzgerald: The Singer's Singer
- CH16 Shirley Chisholm: A Catalyst for Change CH17 The Case of the Purloined Picture: Rosalind Franklin and the Keystone of the Double Helix; Part IV. A Second Look at Our Women of Vision; CH18 A Second Look at Our Women of Vision; Appendix: Study Questions and Activities for Chapters 1 to 17; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-82342-9
- 9786610823420
- 0-8261-0110-0
- OCLC:
- 476061639
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