Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-262) and index.
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Author's note -- Introduction -- Entries: Abzug, Bella Savitsky -- Adams, Abigail Smith -- Addams, Laura Jane -- Albright, Madeleine Korbel -- Anthony, Susan Brownell -- Baa, Joan Chandos -- Baker, Ella Josephine -- Balch, Emily Greene -- Bari, Judith Beatrice -- Barton, Clarissa Harlowe -- Bates, Daisy Lee Gatson -- Berry, Mary Frances -- Bethune, Mary McLeod -- Black, Shirley Jane Temple -- Bloch, Julia Chang -- Boxer, Barbara Levy -- Bryant, Louise Moran -- Butler, Selena Sloan -- Carson, Rachel Louise -- Castillo, Sylvia -- Catt, Carrie Clinton Lane Chapman -- Cervantes, Magdalena -- Chavez, Linda -- Chavez-Thompson, Linda -- Chisholm, Shirley Anita St. Hill -- Clark, Septima Poinsette -- Clinton, Hillary Rodham -- Collins, Cardiss Robertson -- Cooper, Anna Julia Haywood -- Cotera, Martha Castanos -- Craft, Ellen Smith -- Davis, Angela -- Day, Dorothy -- Deer, Ada Elizabeth -- Dix, Dorothea Lynde -- Dole, Mary Elizabeth Alexander Hanford -- Dorr, Rheta Louise Childe -- Duniway, Abigail Jane Scott -- Eastman, Catherine Crystal -- Edelman, Marian Wright -- Feinstein, Dianne -- Felton, Rebecca Ann Latimer -- Ferraro, Geraldine -- Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley -- Friedan, Elizabeth Naomi Goldstein -- Fuller, Sarah Margaret -- Gilman, Charlotte Anna Perkins Stetson -- Ginsburg, Ruth Bader -- Goldman, Emma -- Grasso, Ella Rosa Giovanni Oliva Tambussi -- Griffiths, Martha Wright -- Grimke, Angelina Emily -- Hale, Clara -- Hamer, Fannie Lou Townsend vHamilton, Alice -- Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins -- Harris, Patricia Roberts -- Haviland, Laura Smith -- Height, Dorothy Irene -- Herman, Alexis -- Hernandez, Antonia -- Hernandez, Maria Latigo -- Heumann, Judy -- Hobby, Oveta Culp -- Huerta, Dolores Fernandez -- Hughan, Jessie Wallace -- Hutchinson, Anne Marbury -- Hutchison, Kay Bailey -- Jackson, Helen Maria Fiske Hunt -- Jones, Mary Harris -- Jordan, Barbara Charline -- Kassebaum, Nancy Josephine Landon -- Keller, Helen Adams -- Kelley, Florence Molthrop -- Kennedy, Florence Rae -- Kirkpatrick, Jeanne Jordan -- Kuhn, Margaret Eliza -- LaDuke, Winona -- LaFlesche Picotte, Susan -- Lathrop, Julia Clifford -- Low, Juliette Magill Kinzie Gordon -- Luce, Ann Clare Boothe -- MacKinnon, Catharine Alice -- Mankiller, Wilma Pearl -- Mason, Bridget -- McCloud, Janet Reneecker vMikulski, Barbara Ann -- Millett, Katherine Murray -- Mink, Patsy Takemoto -- Molina, Gloria -- Morgan, Robin -- Moseley-Braun, Carol -- Mott, Lucretia Coffin -- Murray, Anna Pauline -- Murray, Patty Johns -- Nation, Carry Amelia Moore Gloyd -- Norton, Eleanor Holmes -- Novello, Antonia Coello -- O'Hare, Carrie Kathleen Richards Cunningham -- Parks, Rosa Louise McCauley -- Parsons, Lucy Gonzalez -- Paul, Alice Stokes -- Perkins, Frances Coralie -- Rankin, Jeannette Pickering -- Ray, Dixy Lee -- Reno, Janet -- Richards, Dorothy Ann Willis-- Richards, Ellen Henrietta Swallow -- Robinson, Jo Ann Gibson -- Robinson, Ruby Doris Smith -- Rogers, Edith Nourse -- Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor -- Rose, Ernestine Louise Siismondi Potowski -- Ross, Nellie Davis Tayloe -- Ruffin, Josephine St. Pierre-- Sanger, Margaret Louise Higgins -- Schlafly, Phyllis Stewart MacAlpin -- Schroeder, Patricia Nell Scott -- Shaheen, Jeanne Bowers -- Shalala, Donna -- Shaw, Anna Howard -- Shriver, Eunice Mary Kennedy -- Silkwood, Karen Gay -- Smeal, Eleanor Marie Cutri -- Smith, Margaret Madeline Chase -- Snowe, Olympia Jean Boucles -- Stanton, Elizabeth Cady -- Steinem, Gloria -- Stone, Lucy -- CSzold, Chayeleh -- Tarbell, Ida -- Tenayuca, Emma -- Terrell, Mary Elizabeth Church -- Thorpe, Grace -- Truth, Sojourner -- Tubman, Harriet Araminta Greene -- Vaid, Urvashi -- Ward, Nancy -- Waters, Maxine Moore -- Wattleton, Alyce Faye -- Weddington, Sarah Ragle -- Wells-Barnett, Ida Bell -- Whitman, Christine Todd -- Willard, Frances Elizabeth Caroline -- Winnemucca, Sarah Hopkins -- Woodhull, Victoria Claflin -- Wright, Frances -- Recommended sources on American women leaders and activists -- Entries by area of activity -- Entries by year of birth -- General index.
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Contains alphabetically arranged entries that profile the lives and achievements of over 145 American women leaders and activists, including Abigail Adams, Rosa Parks, Helen Keller, Wilma Mankiller, and Hillary Clinton.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Women civic leaders-- United States, Biography, Dictionaries.
Women political activists-- United States, Biography, Dictionaries.
Women social reformers-- United States, Biography, Dictionaries.