Leading ladies : American trailblazers / Kay Bailey Hutchison

Author:: Hutchison, Kay Bailey, 1943-
Published:: New York : Harper, [2007]
Copyright Date:: ©2007
Edition:: 1st ed.
Physical Description:: xv, 396 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents:

The good fight : women in the military -- First ladies : the hardest unpaid job in the world -- If there's a book you want to read : novelists and journalists -- A dream of the future : women's suffrage and civil rights -- Everything I discovered was new : women in medicine and public health -- Lifting the veil of nature : the Nobel Prize in science -- Curing social misery : the settlement house and peace movements -- Commitment overcomes adversity : the making of leaders.

Summary:

Presents biographical portraits of pioneering American women who overcame difficult obstacles to gain entry into male-dominated arenas, from medicine and politics to business and the media.

Subject(s):

Women—United States—Biography

ISBN:

9780061138249
006113824X

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [369]-378) and index.

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