The 100 Most Influential Women of All Time
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The 100 Most Influential Women of All Time

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The 100 Most Influential Women of All Time

About this book

Through the ages women have had to fight to be taken seriously, have their work accepted, and be considered the equal of men intellectually and creatively. This book tips its hat to women such as Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, Sojourner Truth, and Princess Diana, who have made their mark and forever changed the world with their contributions.

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Publisher
Britannica Educational Publishing
eBook ISBN
9781615300587
Year
2009

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Hatshepsut
  7. Nefertiti
  8. Sappho
  9. Cleopatra
  10. Mary
  11. Hypatia
  12. Theodora
  13. Wuhou
  14. Irene
  15. Murasaki Shikibu
  16. Hildegard
  17. Eleanor of Aquitaine
  18. Margaret I
  19. Christine de Pisan
  20. Joan of Arc
  21. Mira Bai
  22. Isabella I
  23. Teresa of Ávila
  24. Mary I
  25. Catherine de MĂ©dicis
  26. Elizabeth I
  27. Artemisia Gentileschi
  28. Okuni
  29. Christina
  30. Maria Theresa
  31. Catherine II
  32. Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
  33. Marie-Antoinette
  34. Mary Wollstonecraft
  35. Germaine de Staël
  36. Jane Austen
  37. Sacagawea
  38. Sojourner Truth
  39. Dorothea Dix
  40. Charlotte and Emily Brontë
  41. Victoria
  42. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  43. Florence Nightingale
  44. Harriet Tubman
  45. Elizabeth Blackwell
  46. Mary Baker Eddy
  47. Cixi
  48. Mary Cassatt
  49. Sarah Bernhardt
  50. Sarah Winnemucca
  51. Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst
  52. Jane Addams
  53. Annie Jump Cannon
  54. Marie Curie
  55. Gertrude Bell
  56. Maria Montessori
  57. Rosa Luxemburg
  58. Colette
  59. Gertrude Stein
  60. Isadora Duncan
  61. Margaret Sanger
  62. Helen Keller
  63. Marie Stopes
  64. Anna Pavlova
  65. Virginia Woolf
  66. Coco Chanel
  67. Eleanor Roosevelt
  68. Karen Horney
  69. Martha Graham
  70. Soong Mei-ling
  71. Amelia Earhart
  72. IrĂšne Joliot-Curie
  73. Golda Meir
  74. Marlene Dietrich
  75. Simone Weil
  76. Katherine Dunham
  77. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
  78. Mother Teresa
  79. Lucille Ball
  80. Rosa Parks
  81. Jiang Qing
  82. Elizabeth Stern
  83. Sirimavo R. D. Bandaranaike
  84. Indira Gandhi
  85. Eva PerĂłn
  86. Rosalind Franklin
  87. Rosalyn S. Yalow
  88. Nadine Gordimer
  89. Elizabeth II
  90. Anne Frank
  91. Violeta Barrios de Chamorro
  92. Sandra Day O’Connor
  93. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
  94. Gro Harlem Brundtland
  95. Wangari Maathai
  96. Martha Stewart
  97. Christiane NĂŒsslein-Volhard
  98. Billie Jean King
  99. Mary Robinson
  100. Aung San Suu Kyi
  101. Shirin Ebadi
  102. Hillary Rodham Clinton
  103. Oprah Winfrey
  104. Rigoberta MenchĂș
  105. Diana, Princess of Wales
  106. Glossary
  107. For Further Reading
  108. Index