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Herstory, women who changed the world, edited by Ruth Ashby and Deborah Gore Ohrn ; introduction by Gloria Steinem

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 294-297) and indexes

collective biography

illustrations

index present

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Herstory

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edited by Ruth Ashby and Deborah Gore Ohrn ; introduction by Gloria Steinem

women who changed the world

The Dawn: Prehistory to 1750: Queen Hatshepsut -- Sappho -- Aspasia -- Cleopatra -- The Trung sisters -- Boudica (Queen Boadicea) -- Hypatia -- Empress Theodora -- Wu Chao -- Murasaki Shikibu -- Sultana Razia -- Christine de Pizan -- John of Arc -- Queen Isabella I -- La Malinche (Doña Marina) -- Catherine de Médicis -- Queen Elizabeth I -- Mary Queen of Scots -- Artemisia Gentileschi -- Judith Leyster -- Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz --From revolution to revolution: 1750 to 1850: Catherine the Great -- Mary Wollstonecraft -- Deborah Sampson -- Jane Austen -- Emma Willard -- Sacajawea -- Sarah Grimké and Angelina Grimké -- La Pola (Policarpa Salavarrieta) -- Sojourner Truth -- Catharine Beecher -- Dorothea Dix -- Margaret Fuller -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Harriet Tubman -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Charlotte Brontë and Emily Brontë -- Maria Mitchell -- Clara Schumann --Queen Victoria -- Susan B. Anthony -- Florence Nightingale -- Elizabeth Blackwell -- Clara Barton -- Antoinette Brown Blackwell -- Mary Harris "Mother" Jones -- Lakshmi Bai -- Emily Dickinson -- Louisa May Alcott -- Tz`u-hsi -- Queen Liliuokalani -- Sarah Bernhardt -- Mary Cassatt -- Sarah Winnemucca -- Carry Nation -- Louisa Lawson -- Olive Schreiner -- Fannie Farmer -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Jane Addams -- Ida B. Wells -- Beatrix Potter --The global community: 1890 to present: Marie Curie -- Sophia Hayden -- Alexandra David-Neel -- Emma Goldman -- Rosa Luxemburg -- Maria Montessori -- Alexandra Kollontai -- Qiu Jin -- Mary McLeod Bethune -- Huda Shaarawi -- Margaret Sanger -- Helen Keller -- Anna Pavlova -- Virginia Woolf -- Rose Schneiderman -- Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Georgia O'Keeffe -- Gabriela Mistral -- Ichikawa Fusae -- Bessie Smith -- Martha Graham -- Marian Anderson -- Amelia Earhart -- Golda Meir -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Margaret Mead -- Margaret Bourke-White -- Greta Garbo -- Frida Kahlo -- Rachel Carson -- Simone de Beauvoir -- Mother Teresa --Mildred "Babe" Didrikson -- Mary Leakey -- Indira Gandhi -- Jessie Lopez De La Cruz -- Eva Perón -- Betty Friedan -- Diane Arbus -- Shirley Chisholm -- Margaret Thatcher -- Nguyen Thi Binh -- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis -- Violeta Chamorro -- Toni Morrison -- Corazon Aquino -- Barbara Jordan -- Valentina Tereshkova -- Marian Wright Edelman -- Wilma Rudolph -- Billie Jean King -- Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams -- Antonia Novello -- Aung San Suu Kyi -- Wilma Mankiller -- Eka Esu-Williams -- Rigoberta Menchú