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Author:

Stiehm, Judith Hicks, 1935- author.

Title:

Champions for peace : women winners of the Nobel Peace Prize / Judith Hicks Stiehm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Publisher:

Rowman & Littlefield,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xvii, 277 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 24 cm

Subject:

Pacifists--Biography.
Nobel Prizes--History.
Women and peace--History.
Peace--History.--History.
Women Nobel Prize winners
Nobel Prize winners.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Bertha von Suttner : noble woman and nobel friend -- Jane Addams : the greatest woman who ever lived -- Emily Greene Balch : the dismissed professor -- Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan : sisterhood created by tragedy -- Mother Teresa : from Macedonia to India -- Alva Myrdal : world diplomat -- Aung San Suu Kyi : resisting by staying home -- Rigoberta Mench Tum : a story that broke the world's heart -- Jody Williams : internet activist -- Shirin Ebadi : Muslim judge -- Wangari Muta Maathai : Kenya's ?green doctor -- Tawakkol Karman, Leymah Gbowee, and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf : 2011, the year of the women.

ISBN:

1442221518 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781442221512 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)863381483

LCCN:

2013042855

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)