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Author:

Lee, Mackenzi, author.

Title:

Bygone badass broads : 52 forgotten women who changed the world / by Mackenzi Lee ; illustrations by Petra Eriksson.

Publisher:

Abrams Image,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

174 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm

Other Authors:

Eriksson, Petra, illustrator.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-174).

Contents:

Express Xi Ling Shi -- Hatshepsut -- Agnodice -- Tru'ng Tra̐c & Tru'ng Nhị -- Queen Arawelo -- Fatima Al-Fihri -- Murasaki Shikibu -- Khutulun -- Sayyida Al-Hurra -- Mochizuki Chiyome -- Doña Ana Lezama de Urinza & Doña Eustaquia de Sonza -- Lady Margaret Cavendish -- King Christina of Sweden -- Julie d'Aubigny -- Sybilla Masters -- Sybil Ludington -- Anne Lister -- Ching Shih -- Mary Anning -- Mary Seacole -- Frederike Mandelbaum -- Lakshmibai, the Rani of Jhansi -- Stagecoach Mary Fields -- Isabella Stewart Gardner -- Emily Warren Roebling -- Buffalo Calf Road Woman -- Mary Bowser & Bet Van Lew -- Marie Duval -- Fannie Farmer -- Juliette Gordon Low -- Annie Jump Cannon -- Clelia Duel Mosher -- Sarah Breedlove -- Edith Garrud -- Emmy Noether -- Alice Ball -- Dorothy Arzner -- Nwanyeruwa -- Rukmini Devi Arundale -- Mariya Oktyabrskaya -- Irene Sendler -- Ursula Nordstrom -- Elvira de la Furnte Chaudoir -- Jackie Mitchell -- Noor Inayat Khan -- Fanny Blankers-Koen -- Kumander Liwayway -- Azucena Villaflor -- Angela Morley -- Maria Tallchief -- The Mirabal sisters -- Lorraine Hansberry.

Summary:

Starting in the fifth century BCE and continuing to the present, Lee introduces readers to bold and inspiring women who dared to step outside traditional gender roles of their time.

ISBN:

141972925X
9781419729256

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1000582947

LCCN:

2017949397

Locations:

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

DBPE173 -- Clear Lake Public Library (Clear Lake)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

YFPC572 -- Springville Memorial Library (Springville)

DEPA173 -- Thornton Public Library (Thornton)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)