American Heroines The Spirited Women Who Shaped Our Country

Name: American Heroines The Spirited Women Who Shaped Our Country
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ISBN: 9780060566364

ISBN-10: 0060566361

ISBN-13: 9780060566364

Edition: 2006

Authors: Kay Bailey Hutchison

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As long as there has been an America, the indomitable spirit of American women has shaped both the country's history and society. Regardless of the time and place these women were born each excelled in her respective field, making it easier for the next generation. This is what makes them heroines. In American Heroines, Kay Bailey Hutchison presents female pioneers in fields as varied as government, business, education and healthcare, who overcame the resistance and prejudice of their times and accomplished things that no womanand sometimes no man had done before. Hutchison, a pioneer in her own right, became the first woman elected to the United States Senate from the State of Texas. …

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 2/28/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.18" wide x 8.27" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Foreword


Introduction



Pioneers and Preservationists


Mary Austin Holley


Ann Raney Coleman


Jane Long


Adina De Zavala


Clara Driscoll


Women of Today


Anne Legendre Armstrong



Women of Faith


Elizabeth Seton


Mary Shindler


Women of Today


Ruth Graham


Marj Carpenter



Education for Everyone


Emma Willard


Women of Today


Lynne Cheney


Ruth Simmons


Rosalyn Yalow



Saving Lives


Clara Barton


Women of Today


Elizabeth Dole


Bernadine Healy


Antonia Novello



The Voice of Her People


Sarah Winnemucca


Elizabeth Palmer Peabody



A Woman's Art


Mary Cassatt


Marian Anderson


Latina Performers


Selena Quintanilla


Women of Today


Beverly Sills



Conquering the Skies


Amelia Earhart


Jacqueline Cochran


Women of Today


Sally Ride



Public Lives, Public Service


Margaret Chase Smith


Women of Today


Geraldine Ferraro


Sandra Day O'Connor



Renaissance Women


Oveta Culp Hobby


Women of Today


Carleton S. Fiorina


Muriel Siebert


Madeleine Albright


Condoleezza Rice


Elaine Chao



Women Look at the World


Margaret Bourke-White


Marguerite Higgins


Women of Today


Barbara Walters


Cokie Roberts


Jane Friedman



Setting Records, Making History


Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zabarias


Althea Gibson


Women of Today


Jackie Joyner-Kersee


Nadia Comaneci


Afterword


Suggestions for Further Reading


Photography Credits