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Women of vision : their psychology, circumstances, and success /

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 Roose...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gavin, Eileen A., Clamar, Aphrodite J., Siderits, Mary Anne
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Springer Pub., ©2007.
Colección:Springer series, focus on women.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Dancing women's freedom : the story of Isadora Duncan / Miriam Roskin Berger, Ilene A. Serlin and Mary Anne Siderits
  • Anne Sullivan Macy and Helen Adams Keller : expressing "vision" with fluttering fingers / Hendrika Vande Kemp
  • Lillian Evelyn Moller Gilbreth : the woman who "had it all" / Melba J.T. Vasquez
  • Alice Paul : constitutional amendment mover and ERA author / Carole A. Rayburn
  • Georgia O'Keeffe : American modernist / Lillian Cartwright
  • Mary McLeod Bethune : voice of change, life of service / Karen Fraser Wyche and Lisa Abern
  • Anne Eleanor Roosevelt : the evolution of an extraordinary leader / Agnes N. O'Connell
  • Rachel Carson : the strength of wonder / Ravenna Helson
  • "Be-going" : the story of Dorothy Day / Mary Anne Siderits
  • Sister Annette Walter's unfinished dream : "to make the universe a home" / Eileen A. Gavin
  • Evelyn Gentry Hooker : the "hopelessly heterosexual" psychologist who normalized homosexuality / Joanne Quarfoth Floyd and Lynda Anne Szymanski
  • Athlete of the century : "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias / Lee Joyce Richmond
  • Lucille Ball : visions of trauma, crisis, and comedy / Calvin Saxton
  • Grace Brewster Murray Hopper : the woman who dared and did / Debra Sue Pate
  • Ella Fitzgerald : the singer's singer / Beverly Greene
  • Shirley Chisholm : a catalyst for change / Barbara L. Biales
  • Case of the purloined picture : Rosalind Franklin and the keystone of the double helix / Michael Wertheimer.