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Ahead of Their Time : A Biographical Dictionary of Risk-Taking Women.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Westport : ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2001Copyright date: ©2002Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (266 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780313016868
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ahead of Their TimeDDC classification:
  • 920.72
LOC classification:
  • HQ1123 -- .D86 2002eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Harriet Chalmers Adams (1875- 1937) -- Joy Friederike Victoria Gessner Adamson (1910- 1980) -- Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz (1822- 1907) -- Delia Denning Akeley (1875- 1970) -- Mary Lenore Jobe Akeley (1878- 1966) -- Jacqueline Marie-Therese Suzanne Douet Auriol (1917- 2000) -- Isabelle Autissier (1956- ) -- Ann Bancroft (1955- ) -- Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell (1868- 1926) -- Ruth Fulton Benedict (1887- 1948) -- Gertrude Benham (1867- 1938) -- Isabella Lucy Bird Bishop (1831- 1904) -- Arlene Blum (1945- ) -- Margaret Bourke-White (1906- 1971) -- Louise Arner Boyd (1887- 1972) -- Susan Butcher (1954- ) -- Rachel Louise Carson (1907- 1964) -- Lucy Evelyn Cheesman (1881- 1969) -- Eugenie Clark (1922- ) -- Geraldyn "Jerrie" Cobb (1931- ) -- Jacqueline Cochran (c. 1910- 1980) -- Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman (1892- 1926) -- Eileen Marie Collins (1956- ) -- Alexandra David-Neel (1868- 1969) -- Meta Ann "Annie" Doak Dillard (1945- ) -- Florence Catherine Douglas Dixie (1855- 1905) -- Amelia Earhart (1898- 1937) -- Dian Fossey (1932- 1985) -- Clare Mary Francis (1946- ) -- Birute Marija Filomena Galdikis (1948- ) -- Jane Goodall (1934- ) -- Ernestine "Dee Dee" Green (1939- ) -- Beatrice Ethel Grimshaw (1871- 1953) -- Marguerite Elton Baker Harrison (1879- 1967) -- Mae Carol Jemison (1956- ) -- Amy Johnson (1903- 1941) -- Mary Henrietta Kingsley (1862- 1900) -- Monica Kristensen (1950- ) -- Anne LaBastille -- Sharon Christa Corrigan McAuliffe (1949- 1986) -- Beryl Clutterbuck Markham (1902- 1986) -- Margaret Mead (1901- 1979) -- Sylvia Earle Mead (1935- ) -- Ruth Nichols (1901- 1960) -- Valentina Tereshkova Nikolayev (1937- ) -- Marianne North (1830- 1890) -- Diana Sneed Nyad (1949- ) -- Annie Smith Peck (1850- 1935) -- Harriet Quimby (1875- 1912) -- Sally Kristen Ride (1951- ) -- Freya Stark (1893- 1993).
Junko Istibashi Tabei (1939- ) -- Alexandrine Petronella "Alexine" Tinne (1835- 1869) -- Fanny Bullock Workman (1859- 1925) -- Appendix I: Vignettes of Other Women -- Appendix II: Women by Category -- Appendix III: Women by Nationality -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Harriet Chalmers Adams (1875- 1937) -- Joy Friederike Victoria Gessner Adamson (1910- 1980) -- Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz (1822- 1907) -- Delia Denning Akeley (1875- 1970) -- Mary Lenore Jobe Akeley (1878- 1966) -- Jacqueline Marie-Therese Suzanne Douet Auriol (1917- 2000) -- Isabelle Autissier (1956- ) -- Ann Bancroft (1955- ) -- Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell (1868- 1926) -- Ruth Fulton Benedict (1887- 1948) -- Gertrude Benham (1867- 1938) -- Isabella Lucy Bird Bishop (1831- 1904) -- Arlene Blum (1945- ) -- Margaret Bourke-White (1906- 1971) -- Louise Arner Boyd (1887- 1972) -- Susan Butcher (1954- ) -- Rachel Louise Carson (1907- 1964) -- Lucy Evelyn Cheesman (1881- 1969) -- Eugenie Clark (1922- ) -- Geraldyn "Jerrie" Cobb (1931- ) -- Jacqueline Cochran (c. 1910- 1980) -- Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman (1892- 1926) -- Eileen Marie Collins (1956- ) -- Alexandra David-Neel (1868- 1969) -- Meta Ann "Annie" Doak Dillard (1945- ) -- Florence Catherine Douglas Dixie (1855- 1905) -- Amelia Earhart (1898- 1937) -- Dian Fossey (1932- 1985) -- Clare Mary Francis (1946- ) -- Birute Marija Filomena Galdikis (1948- ) -- Jane Goodall (1934- ) -- Ernestine "Dee Dee" Green (1939- ) -- Beatrice Ethel Grimshaw (1871- 1953) -- Marguerite Elton Baker Harrison (1879- 1967) -- Mae Carol Jemison (1956- ) -- Amy Johnson (1903- 1941) -- Mary Henrietta Kingsley (1862- 1900) -- Monica Kristensen (1950- ) -- Anne LaBastille -- Sharon Christa Corrigan McAuliffe (1949- 1986) -- Beryl Clutterbuck Markham (1902- 1986) -- Margaret Mead (1901- 1979) -- Sylvia Earle Mead (1935- ) -- Ruth Nichols (1901- 1960) -- Valentina Tereshkova Nikolayev (1937- ) -- Marianne North (1830- 1890) -- Diana Sneed Nyad (1949- ) -- Annie Smith Peck (1850- 1935) -- Harriet Quimby (1875- 1912) -- Sally Kristen Ride (1951- ) -- Freya Stark (1893- 1993).

Junko Istibashi Tabei (1939- ) -- Alexandrine Petronella "Alexine" Tinne (1835- 1869) -- Fanny Bullock Workman (1859- 1925) -- Appendix I: Vignettes of Other Women -- Appendix II: Women by Category -- Appendix III: Women by Nationality -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

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