| Description |
xix, 282 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Human tradition in America; no. 6
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Rebecca Dickinson : a life alone in the early republic / Marla R. Miller -- Susanna Haswell Rowson : America's first best-selling author / Patricia L. Parker -- Sacagawea : a historical enigma / Laura McCall -- Caroline Healey Dall : transcendentalist activist / Helen Deese -- Mary S. Gove Nichols : making the personal political / Jean Silver-Isenstadt -- Eliza Johnson Potter : traveler, entrepreneur, and social critic / Wilma King -- Ada Adelaine Adams Vogdes : "Follow the drum" / Michele Nacy -- Teresa E. Wooldridge Ivey : constructing an ideal southern lady / Angela Boswell -- Gertrude Osterhout : "I am independent" / Margaret Breashears -- Margaret Olivia Slocum, "Mrs. Russell Sage" : private griefs and public duties / Ruth Crocker -- Nellie Wiegel : "How about that?!" / Katherine Osburn -- Ah Cum Kee and Loy Lee Ford : between two worlds / Sue Fawn Chung -- Catherine Kenny : fighting for the perfect thirty-sixth / Carole Stanford Bucy -- Willie Webb : one woman's struggle for civil rights during World War II / Andrew Kersten -- Ethel Thomas Herold : doing "women's work" in a Philippines at war / Theresa Kaminski -- Betty Flanagan Bumpers : an "ordinary mother" dedicated to peace / Paula Barnes -- Margarita "Mago" Orona Gandara : frontera muralist/artist / Miguel Juarez. |
| Subject |
Women -- United States -- Biography.
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Women -- United States -- History.
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| Added Author |
Lindenmeyer, Kriste, 1955-
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| ISBN |
0842027521 (alk. paper) |
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0842027548 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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