Women of vision : their psychology, circumstances, and success / editors, Eileen A. Gavin, Aphrodite Clamar, Mary Anne Siderits.
2007
HQ1412 .W665 2007eb
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Title
Women of vision : their psychology, circumstances, and success / editors, Eileen A. Gavin, Aphrodite Clamar, Mary Anne Siderits.
ISBN
9780826101105 (electronic bk.)
0826101100 (electronic bk.)
1280823429
9781280823428
9780826102539 (hardback)
0826102530 (hardback)
0826101100 (electronic bk.)
1280823429
9781280823428
9780826102539 (hardback)
0826102530 (hardback)
Imprint
New York : Springer Pub., ©2007.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xx, 311 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
HQ1412 .W665 2007eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)144615840
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
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Series
Springer series, focus on women.
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Print version: Women of vision. New York : Springer Pub., ©2007
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