Deborah G Felder

Trailblazing Women!

Amazing Americans Who Made History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Trailblazing Women! offers 120 biographies of American women who made important contributions in the areas of science, politics, civil rights, religion, education, exploration, sports, and invention"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Visible Ink Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Altersempfehlung: 13 bis 17 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781578597291
• ISBN-10: 1578597293
• Artikelnr.: 59920742

Autorenporträt

Deborah G. Felder is a graduate of Bard College, where she studied drama and literature. She worked as an editor at Scholastic, Inc., and has been a freelance writer and editor for over 30 years. The author of more than 20 publications, including fiction and nonfiction books, and articles for middle grade, young adult, and adult readers, her books include Visible Ink Press¿ The American Women¿s Almanac: 500 Years of Vitality, Triumph and Excellence as well as The 100 Most Influential Women of All Time: A Ranking Past and Present; A Century of Women: The Most Influential Events in Twentieth-Century Women¿s History; and A Bookshelf of Our Own: Works That Changed Women¿s Lives. She has also written book reviews for The New York Times Book Review, Kirkus Reviews, and Publishers Weekly. She resides with her husband, Daniel Burt, in South Chatham, Massachusetts.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Acknowledgments Heroic Women Bibliographies Jane Addams, Madeleine Albright, Louisa May Alcott, Hattie Elizabeth Alexander, Marian Anderson, Maya Angelou, Susan B. Anthony, Dorothy Arzner, Lucille Ball, Clara Barton, Florence Bascom, Mary McLeod Bethune, Margaret Bourke-White, Ruby Bridges, Gwendolyn Brooks, Pearl S. Buck, Tarana Burke, Rachel Carson, Mary Cassatt, Julia Child, Shirley Chisholm, Hillary Clinton, Jacqueline Cochran, Joan Ganz Cooney, Anna Julia Cooper, Barbara Corcoran, Angela Davis, Agnes de Mille, Katherine Dunham, Ann E. Dunwoody, Amelia Earhart, Gertrude Elion, Peggy Fleming, Betty Friedan, Margaret Fuller, Althea Gibson, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Martha Graham, Temple Grandin, Carol W. Greider, Fannie Lou Hamer, Alice Hamilton, Mia Hamm, Kamala Harris, Katharine Hepburn, Billie Holiday, bel hooks, Grace Hopper, Dolores Huerta, Arianna Huffington, Zora Neale Hurston, Shirley Ann Jackson, Mae Carol Jemison, Gish Jen, Katherine Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Mary Harris
Mother
Jones, Barbara Jordan, Helen Keller (and Anne Sullivan), Billie Jean King, Coretta Scott King, Maxine Hong Kingston, Juanita Morris Kreps, Emma Lazarus, Maya Lin, Eleanor Josephine MacDonald, Dolley Madison, Claire McCardell, Barbara McClintock, Margaret Mead, Maria Mitchell, Toni Morrison, Carry Nation, Michelle Obama, Sandra Day O
Connor, Georgia O
Keeffe, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Rosa Parks, Nancy Pelosi, Frances Perkins, Jeannette Rankin, Janet Reno, Mary Lou Retton, Condoleezza Rice, Sally Ride, Eleanor Roosevelt, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Susanna Rowson, Wilma Rudolph, Florence Sabin, Sacagawea, Deborah Sampson, Margaret Sanger, Bessie Smith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Gloria Steinem, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Maria Tallchief, Amy Tan, Ida M. Tarbell, Mary Church Terrell, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Karen Uhlenbeck, Madame C. J. Walker, Barbara Walters, Randi Weingarten, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Gladys West, Phillis Wheatley, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Oprah Winfrey, Sarah Winnemucca, Susan Wojcicki, Victoria Woodhull, Chien-Shiung Wu, Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Kristi Yamaguchi, and Babe Didrikson Zaharias Bibliography