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Modern Women is a celebration of influential and inspiring women who have changed the world through their lives, work and actions.
From suffragettes to scientists, activists to artists, politicians to pilots and writers to riot grrrls, the women included have all paved the way for gender equality in their own indomitable way.
Find out about extraordinary women including writer and teacher Maya Angelou, computer scientist Ada Lovelace, abolitionist Harriet Tubman, film star Katharine Hepburn and pioneering musician Björk. Their lives also enable bigger stories to be told: the suffrage movement with Sophia Duleep Singh; the civil rights struggle and Audre Lorde; advances in science made by Rosalind Franklin; the push for artistic freedom in the work of Frida Kahlo and Louise Bourgeois; and the importance of equality in all sections of society advocated by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
From suffragettes to scientists, activists to artists, politicians to pilots and writers to riot grrrls, the women included have all paved the way for gender equality in their own indomitable way.
Find out about extraordinary women including writer and teacher Maya Angelou, computer scientist Ada Lovelace, abolitionist Harriet Tubman, film star Katharine Hepburn and pioneering musician Björk. Their lives also enable bigger stories to be told: the suffrage movement with Sophia Duleep Singh; the civil rights struggle and Audre Lorde; advances in science made by Rosalind Franklin; the push for artistic freedom in the work of Frida Kahlo and Louise Bourgeois; and the importance of equality in all sections of society advocated by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
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INDEX
Page numbers in italics refer to captions
- A.I.R. Gallery New York 287
- abolitionist 41–45
- abortion 38, 132–133
- abuse 65, 114, 116, 206, 244
- activists 11–15, 29–33, 51–55, 75–79, 97–101, 131–135, 149–153, 176, 193–197, 199–203, 223–227, 265–269, 271–275, 277–281
- actress 161–165
- Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi 177, 177–180
- All the President’s Men 93
- Americanah 180
- Analytical Engine, The 144, 145, 147
- Andre, Carl 285
- Angelou, Maya 149–153, 149
- Anning, Joseph 18, 19
- Anning, Mary 17–21, 17
- anti–Nazis 75–79, 251
- apartheid 63–67, see also racism
- Appalachian Spring 251
- architect 253–257
- Arnaz, Desi 104, 105, 106
- artificial intelligence 145
- artists 125–129, 211–215, 229–233, 283–287
- Arzner, Dorothy 3
- assault 37, 38, 169, 194, 197, 227, see also rape
- astronaut 57–61
- athletes 7–10, 29–33, 167–171, 235–239
- author 271–275, see als...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Alice Guy-Blaché
- Tegla Loroupe
- Del Martin & Phyllis Lyon
- Mary Anning
- Katie Sandwina
- Billie Jean King
- Kathleen Hanna
- Harriet Tubman
- Vesta Tilley
- Leymah Gbowee
- Valentina Tereshkova
- Miriam Makeba
- Sophia Duleep Singh
- Sophie Scholl
- Jan Morris
- Junko Tabei
- Nora Ephron
- Audre Lorde
- Lucille Ball
- Jayaben Desai
- Oprah Winfrey
- Amelia Earhart
- Artemisia Gentileschi
- Dorothy Pitman Hughes & Gloria Steinem
- Dorothea Lange
- Ada Lovelace
- Maya Angelou
- Björk
- Katharine Hepburn
- Diana Nyad
- Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
- Gurinder Chadha
- Ida B. Wells
- Shirin Ebadi
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- Frida Kahlo
- Rosalind Franklin
- Wangari Maathai
- Louise Bourgeois
- Wilma Rudolph
- Virginia Woolf
- Martha Graham
- Zaha Hadid
- Lee Miller
- Nina Simone
- Helen Keller
- Claudia Jones
- Ana Mendieta
- Index
- Select Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Picture Credits
- Copyright