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Format:
Book
Title:
100 most important women of the 20th century.
Other title(s):
One hundred most important women of the twentieth century

Ladies' home journal 100 most important women of the 20th century
ISBN:
9780696208232
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
Des Moines, Iowa : Ladies' Home Journal Books, 1998.
Physical Description:
192 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
General Note:
"Author: Kevin Markey"--Page [4].

Includes index.
Contents:
Activists & Politicians: Jane Addams -- Madeleine Albright -- Mary McCleod Bethune -- Carrie Chapman Catt -- Hillary Rodham Clinton -- Marian Wright Edelman -- Indira Gandhi -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg -- Emma Goldman -- Anita Hill -- Dolores Huerta -- Maggie Kuhn -- Golda Meir -- Rigoberta Menchú -- Sandra Day O'Connor -- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis -- Rosa Parks -- Alice Paul -- Frances Perkins -- Eva Perón -- Jiang Qing -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Phyllis Schlafly -- Gloria Steinem -- Daw Aung San Suu Kyi -- Mother Teresa -- Margaret Thatcher -- Writers & Journalists: Maya Angelou -- Hannah Arendt -- Rachel Carson -- Agatha Christie -- Simone de Beauvoir -- Anne Frank -- Betty Friedan -- Ann Landers -- Margaret Mead -- Margaret Mitchell -- Toni Morrison -- Dorothy Parker -- Sylvia Plath -- Gertrude Stein -- Barbara Walters -- Laura Ingalls Wilder -- Virginia Woolf -- Doctors & Scientists: Virginia Apgar -- Helen Caldicott -- Marie Curie -- Rosalind Franklin -- Jane Goodall -- Grace Hopper -- Melanie Klein -- Mary Leakey -- Barbara McClintock -- Lise Meitner -- Entrepreneurs: Coco Chanel -- Julia Child -- Elsie de Wolfe -- Katharine Graham -- Ruth Handler -- Estée Lauder -- Jean Nidetch -- Mary Quant -- Martha Stewart -- Oprah Winfrey -- Artists & Entertainers: Marian Anderson -- Lucille Ball -- Margaret Bourke-White -- Maria Callas -- Isadora Duncan -- Ella Fitzgerald -- Jane Fonda -- Greta Garbo -- Martha Graham -- Katharine Hepburn -- Billie Holiday -- Janis Joplin -- Frida Kahlo -- Dorothea Lange -- Madonna -- Marilyn Monroe -- Georgia O'Keeffe -- Mary Pickford -- Leni Riefenstahl -- Athletes: Nadia Comaneci -- Babe Didrikson -- Gertrude Ederle -- Sonja Henie -- Billie Jean King -- Suzanne Lenglen -- Wilma Rudolph -- Pioneers & Adventurers: Nancy Brinker -- Helen Gurley Brown -- Diana, Princess of Wales -- Amelia Earhart -- Betty Ford -- Helen Keller -- Maria Montessori -- Jane Roe -- Margaret Sanger -- Valentina Tereshkova.
Summary:
A photo-filled celebration of extraordinary 20th-century women highlights women's contributions in politics, child care, science, education, athletics, literature, entertainment, art, and more. Over 200 photos.
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