Scholastic Encyclopedia Of Women

by Keenan, Sheila

• ISBN13: 9780590051248
• ISBN10: 0590051245
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: Scholastic Reference
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Summary

Women keep making history - and this updated edition includes the latest on women history-makers and record-breakers.

Women keep making history: in politics, media, sports, and the arts. This updated classic in the Scholastic Encyclopedia line is now available in paperback for the first time. This is a comprehensive, chronological look at women's great contributions to our national culture from Abigail Adams to Christie Todd Whitman. More than 250 biographies are arranged in six chronological chapters from the 1500s to today. New biographical entries and photos of key figures like Madeline Albright, Ellen Ochoa, Marion Jones and Amy Tan join updated entires for movers and shakers from Hillary Clinton to Oprah Winfrey.

Author Biography

Sheila Keenan has a master's degree in English literature with a minor in women's studies from the University of Massachusetts. She is the author of several books for children

Table of Contents

The First American Women: 1500s through the 1700s	p. 25
Overview	p. 6
Abigail Adams	p. 8
Anne Bradstreet	p. 9
Molly Brant	p. 10
Margaret Brent	p. 10
Margaret Corbin	p. 11
Mary Dyer	p. 12
Rebecca Gratz	p. 12
Barbara Heck	p. 13
Anne Hutchinson	p. 13
Mary Jemison	p. 14
Mother Anne Lee	p. 15
Lady Deborah Moody	p. 15
Judith Sargent Murray	p. 16
Eliza Lucas Pinckney	p. 17
Molly Pitcher	p. 18
Pocahontas	p. 19
Susanna Haswell Rowson	p. 20
Deborah Sampson	p. 20
Nancy Ward	p. 22
Mercy Otis Warren	p. 23
Martha Washington	p. 24
Phillis Wheatley	p. 25
Sarah Todd Astor	p. 8
Lydia Darragh	p. 12
Mary Katherine Goddard	p. 13
Deborah Read	p. 20
Jemima Wilkinson	p. 25
Growth and Conflict: 1800 through the 1880s	p. 26
Overview	p. 26
Louisa May Alcott	p. 28
Susan B. Anthony	p. 28
Clara Barton	p. 30
Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell	p. 31
Amelia Jenks Bloomer	p. 32
Belle Boyd	p. 33
Mary Cassatt	p. 34
Fanny Jackson Coppin	p. 34
Prudence Crandall	p. 35
Jane Croly	p. 36
Emily Dickinson	p. 37
Dorothea Dix	p. 38
Mary Baker Eddy	p. 39
Sarah Edmonds	p. 40
Margaret Fuller	p. 41
Angelina and Sarah Grimke	p. 42
Sarah Josepha Hale	p. 43
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	p. 44
Harriet Hosmer	p. 44
Lucy Larcom	p. 45
Edmonia Lewis	p. 46
Belva Lockwood	p. 46
Mary Lyon	p. 47
Maria Mitchell	p. 48
Lucretia Mott	p. 48
Annie Oakley	p. 49
Lydia E. Pinkham	p. 50
Charlotte E. Ray	p. 50
Sacajawea	p. 51
Elizabeth Cady Stanton	p. 52
Lucy Stone	p. 53
Harriet Beecher Stowe	p. 54
Susie King Taylor	p. 55
Sojourner Truth	p. 56
Harriet Tubman	p. 57
Emma Willard	p. 58
Frances Willard	p. 59
Sarah Winnemucca	p. 60
Victoria Woodhull	p. 61
Sarah Bagley	p. 30
Gertrudes Barcelo	p. 31
Catharine Beecher	p. 33
Ellen Craft	p. 34
Abigail Duniway	p. 37
Jessie Benton Fremont	p. 41
Margaret Knight	p. 45
Dolley Madison	p. 48
Esther Morris	p. 49
Vinnie Ream	p. 50
Dr. Mary Edwards Walker	p. 57
The Rights of Women: 1890s through the 1920s	p. 62
Overview	p. 62
Jane Addams	p. 64
Nellie Bly	p. 65
Annie Jump Cannon	p. 66
Willa Cather	p. 66
Carrie Chapman Catt	p. 67
Bessie Coleman	p. 68
Isadora Duncan	p. 69
Crystal Eastman	p. 70
Fannie Farmer	p. 70
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn	p. 71
Charlotte Perkins Gilman	p. 72
Emma Goldman	p. 73
Mother Jones	p. 74
Jovita Idar de Juarez	p. 75
Helen Keller	p. 75
Florence Kelley	p. 76
Rose Knox	p. 77
Julia Lathrop	p. 78
Mary Elizabeth Lease	p. 79
Queen Liliuokalani	p. 80
Juliette Gordon Low	p. 81
Edna St. Vincent Millay	p. 82
Alice Paul	p. 82
Annie Smith Peck	p. 84
Dr. Mary Engle Pennington	p. 84
Mary Pickford	p. 85
Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte	p. 86
Jeannette Rankin	p. 87
Ellen Swallow Richards	p. 88
Margaret Sanger	p. 88
Dr. Anna Howard Shaw	p. 90
Bessie Smith	p. 91
Nettie Stevens	p. 92
Ida Tarbell	p. 92
Mary Church Terrell	p. 93
Madame C. J. Walker	p. 94
Ida B. Wells	p. 96
Edith Wharton	p. 97
Harriet Stanton Blatch	p. 65
Gertrude Ederle	p. 68
Isabella Stewart Gardner	p. 72
Harriet Quimby	p. 86
Tye Leung Schulze	p. 91
Maggie Lena Walker	p. 94
Hard Times, Tough Choices: 1930s and 1940s	p. 98
Overview	p. 98
Berenice Abbott	p. 100
Dr. Hattie Alexander	p. 100
Marian Anderson	p. 101
Mary Anderson	p. 102
Dorothy Arzner	p. 102
Mary McLeod Bethune	p. 103
Margaret Bourke-White	p. 104
Pearl S. Buck	p. 105
Jacqueline Cochran	p. 106
Bette Davis	p. 107
Molly Dewson	p. 107
Katherine Dunham	p. 108
Amelia Earhart	p. 109
Ella Fitzgerald	p. 110
Martha Graham	p. 111
Edith Hamilton	p. 112
Edith Head	p. 112
Katharine Hepburn	p. 113
Oveta Culp Hobby	p. 114
Malvina Hoffman	p. 114
Dr. Karen Horney	p. 115
Zora Neale Hurston	p. 116
Dorothea Lange	p. 116
Margaret Mead	p. 117
Agnes de Mille	p. 118
Luisa Moreno	p. 119
Georgia O'Keeffe	p. 120
Frances Perkins	p. 120
Eleanor Roosevelt	p. 122
Augusta Savage	p. 123
Gertrude Stein	p. 124
Dr. Helen Brooke Taussig	p. 125
Dorothy Thompson	p. 126
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney	p. 126
Babe Didrikson Zaharias	p. 127
Dorothy Eustis	p. 108
Dorothy Schiff	p. 122
Rose Schneiderman	p. 123
Laura Ingalls Wilder	p. 126
The American Dream: 1950s and 1960s	p. 128
Overview	p. 128
Hannah Arendt	p. 130
Joan Baez	p. 130
Ella Baker	p. 131
Gwendolyn Brooks	p. 132
Maria Callas	p. 133
Rachel Carson	p. 133
Shirley Chisholm	p. 134
Septima Clark	p. 135
Dian Fossey	p. 136
Aretha Franklin	p. 137
Betty Friedan	p. 138
Althea Gibson	p. 139
Fannie Lou Hamer	p. 140
Lorraine Hansberry	p. 141
Lillian Hellman	p. 141
Grace Brewster Murray Hopper	p. 142
Dolores Huerta	p. 143
Barbara Jordan	p. 144
Clare Boothe Luce	p. 145
Dr. Maria Goeppert Mayer	p. 146
Mary McCarthy	p. 147
Marilyn Monroe	p. 148
Grandma Moses	p. 149
Louise Nevelson	p. 150
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis	p. 150
Rosa Parks	p. 151
Leontyne Price	p. 152
Ethel Rosenberg	p. 153
Wilma Rudolph	p. 153
Margaret Chase Smith	p. 154
Maria Tallchief	p. 155
Lila Acheson Wallace	p. 156
Mary Georgene Wells	p. 156
Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu	p. 157
Alicia Alonso	p. 130
Diane Arbus	p. 131
Peggy Fleming	p. 136
Bette Nesmith Graham	p. 139
Janis Joplin	p. 143
Coretta Scott King	p. 144
Estee Lauder	p. 145
Carson McCullers	p. 147
Patsy Mink	p. 149
Woman Powerl: 1970s through the 2000s	p. 158
Overview	p. 158
Madeleine Albright	p. 160
Maya Angelou	p. 161
Shirley Temple Black	p. 162
Connie Chung	p. 162
Sandra Cisneros	p. 163
Hillary Rodham Clinton	p. 164
Celia Cruz	p. 165
Angela Davis	p. 166
Marian Wright Edelman	p. 166
Dr. Gertrude Belle Elion	p. 167
Gloria Estefan	p. 168
Geraldine Ferraro	p. 169
Jane Fonda	p. 170
Ruth Bader Ginsburg	p. 171
Katharine Graham	p. 172
Florence Griffith-Joyner	p. 173
Dr. Mae C. Jemison	p. 174
Marion Jones	p. 175
Jackie Joyner-Kersee	p. 176
Billie Jean King	p. 177
Maxine Hong Kingston	p. 178
Maggie Kuhn	p. 179
Maya Lin	p. 180
Madonna	p. 181
Wilma Mankiller	p. 182
Dr. Barbara McClintock	p. 183
Toni Morrison	p. 184
Martina Navratilova	p. 186
Jessye Norman	p. 187
Dr. Antonia Novello	p. 187
Ellen Ochoa	p. 188
Sandra Day O'Connor	p. 189
Janet Reno	p. 190
Dr. Sally Ride	p. 191
Faith Ringgold	p. 192
Julia Roberts	p. 193
Muriel F. Siebert	p. 193
Gloria Steinem	p. 194
Martha Stewart	p. 195
Elizabeth Taylor	p. 196
Twyla Tharp	p. 196
Alice Walker	p. 197
Barbara Walters	p. 197
Oprah Winfrey	p. 198
Dr. Rosalyn Yalow	p. 199
Bella Abzug	p. 160
Judy Blume	p. 161
Louise Bourgeois	p. 162
Barbara Bush	p. 163
Rita Dove	p. 165
Mia Hamm	p. 170
Michelle Kwan	p. 175
LaDonna Harris	p. 176
Juanita Kreps	p. 178
Dr. Mathilde Krim	p. 179
Nancy Lopez	p. 183
Phyllis Schlafly	p. 187
Beverly Sills	p. 194
Venus and Serena Williams	p. 199
How To Use This Book	p. 4
Topical Index	p. 200
Alphabetical Index	p. 202
Bibliography	p. 206
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