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Women Nobel Peace Prize winners / Anita Price Davis and Marla J. Selvidge ; foreword by Regina Birchem

Author
Davis, Anita Price
Published
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2006]
Copyright Date
©2006
Physical Description
x, 216 pages : portraits ; 26 cm
Additional Creators
Selvidge, Marla J., 1948-

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JZ5540.D38 2006 AS911.N9D38 2006
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Contents
Bertha von Suttner (1905) -- Jane Addams (1931) -- Emily Greene Balch (1946) -- Mairead Corrigan Maguire and Elizabeth (Betty) Williams -- Mother Teresa (Agnes G. Bohjaxhiu) (1979) -- Alva Reimer Myrdal (1982) -- Aung San Suu Kyi (1991) -- Rigoberta Menchú Tum (1992) -- Jody Williams (1997) -- Shirin Ebadi (2003) -- Wangari Muta Maathai (2004).
Summary
"From Bertha von Suttner (1905) to Wangari Maathai (2004), this work provides a detailed look at the lives and accomplishments of 12 female recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize. Each biography, while presenting an overall picture of the subject's life, naturally concentrates upon the work that earned her the prize"--Provided by publisher.
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ISBN
0786423994 (softcover : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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