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Pg… 4 Legendary Lives In unique and varied ways they have extended the boundaries of experience
Pg… 14 Abigail Adams 1744–1818
Pg… 13 Pearl Buck 1892–1973
Pg… 8 Jennie Jerome Churchill 1854–1921
Pg… 4 Amelia Earhart 1897–1937
Pg… 7 Lillian Gilbreth 1878–1972
Pg… 13 Phoebe Hearst 1842–1919
Pg… 4 Julia Ward Howe 1819–1910
Pg… 11 Janis Joplin 1943–1970
Pg… 14 Anne Morrow Lindbergh 1906–
Pg… 11 Clare Boothe Luce 1903
Pg… 11 Lucretia Mott 1793–1880
Pg… 8 Mother Seton 1774–1821
Pg… 8 Baby Doe Tabor 1862–1935
Pg… 14 Wallis Simpson Windsor 1896–
Pg… 17 The Debt We Owe, the Choices We Face A personal perspective on remarkable American women By Jane Howard
Pg… 19 Winners in a Man's World A share of the power
Pg… 26 Bella Abzug 1920
Pg… 27 Olive Ann Beech 1903
Pg… 20 Nellie Bly 1865?–1922
Pg… 25 Sarah Caldwell 1928
Pg… 23 Katharine Graham 1917–
Pg… 19 Barbara Jordan 1936
Pg… 26 Mary Wells Lawrence 1928
Pg… 21 Tillie Lewis 1904
Pg… 22 Belva Lockwood 1830–1917
Pg… 22 Rebecca Lukens 1794–1854
Pg… 27 Julia Morgan 1872–1957
Pg… 26 Annie Smith Peck 1850–1935
Pg… 21 Frances Perkins 1880–1965
Pg… 22 Jeannette Piccard 1895
Pg… 23 Lydia E. Pinkham 1819–1883
Pg… 20 Jeannette Rankin 1880–1973
Pg… 21 Helena Rubinstein 1870–1965
Pg… 26 Dorothy Thompson 1894–1961
Pg… 20 Barbara Walters 1931–
Pg… 28 Wild Wild Women Eccentrics, outlaws and conpersons who stood out from the crowd
Pg… 31 "Ma" Barker 1872–1935
Pg… 29 Lizzie Borden 1860–1927
Pg… 32 Calamity Jane 1852?–1903
Pg… 32 Cassie Chadwick 1857?–1907
Pg… 30 Hefty Green 1834–1916 31 Texas Guinan 1884–1933
Pg… 29 Aimee Semple McPherson 1890–1944 31 Carry Nation 1846–1911
Pg… 34 Evelyn Nesbit 1885–1967
Pg… 31 Peggy O'Neale 1799–1879
Pg… 30 "Mammy" Pleasant 1814?–1904
Pg… 34 Belle Starr 1848–1889
Pg… 37 Noble Causes Crusaders for the sick, poor and oppressed
Pg… 40 Joan Baez 1941
Pg… 40 Mary McLeod Bethune 1875–1955
Pg… 39 Angela Davis 1944
Pg… 39 Dorothy Day 1897
Pg… 40 Dorothea Dix 1802–1887
Pg… 41 Mary Baker Eddy 1821–1910
Pg… 39 Elizabeth Gurley Flynn 1890–1964
Pg… 39 Emma Goldman 1869–1940
Pg… 40 Dolores Huerta 1930
Pg… 40 "Mother" Jones 1830–1930
Pg… 39 Rose Hawthorne Lathrop 1851–1926
Pg… 39 Lottie Moon 1840–1912
Pg… 39 Agnes Smedley 1892?–1950
Pg… 37 Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811–1896
Pg… 40 Ida Tarbell 1857–1944
Pg… 40 Harriet Tubman 1820?–1913
Pg… 39 Sarah Winnemucca 1844?–1891
Pg… 40 Frances Wright 1795–1852
Pg… 43 The Creative Impulse Rich offerings from the realms of art
Pg… 46 Mary Cassatt 1844–1926
Pg… 53 Willa Gather 1873–1947
Pg… 43 Imogen Cunningham 1883–1976
Pg… 52 Emily Dickinson 1830–1886
Pg… 53 Isadora Duncan 1878–1927
Pg… 52 Helen Frankenthaler 1928
Pg… 44 Martha Graham 1894
Pg… 52 Lillian Hellman 1906
Pg… 48 Helen Hokinson 1893–1949
Pg… 46 Harriet Hosmer 1830–1908
Pg… 52 Dorothea Lange 1895–1965
Pg… 49 Rosina Lhevinne 1880
Pg… 53 Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892–1950
Pg… 50 Harriet Monroe 1860–1936
Pg… 49 Marianne Moore 1887–1972
Pg… 55 Grandma Moses 1860–1961
Pg… 55 Louise Nevelson 1899
Pg… 48 Georgia O'Keeffe 1887–
Pg… 47 Leontyne Price 1926
Pg… 56 Gertrude Stein 1874–1946
Pg… 44 Twyla Tharp 1942
Pg… 53 Edith Wharton 1862–1937
Pg… 54 Mary Lou Williams 1910–
Pg… 61 Athletes The drive to be champion
Pg… 64 Tenley Albright 1935
Pg… 65 Gertrude Ederle 1906
Pg… 61 Billie Jean King 1943
Pg… 63 Andrea Mead Lawrence 1932
Pg… 63 Wilma Rudolph 1940
Pg… 62 Eleonora Sears 1881–1968
Pg… 64 Helen Wills 1906
Pg… 62 Babe Didrikson Zaharias 1911–1956
Pg… 67 Quest of the Mind High achievement in the exploration of earth, stars and ourselves
Pg… 69 Ruth Benedict 1887–1948
Pg… 68 Rachel Carson 1907–1964
Pg… 69 Margaret Fuller 1810–1850
Pg… 70 Alice Hamilton 1869–1970
Pg… 70 Edith Hamiltion 1867–1965
Pg… 68 Grace Hopper 1906
Pg… 69 Karen Horney 1885–1952
Pg… 68 Jane Jacobs 1916
Pg… 69 Maria Goeppert Mayer 1906–1972
Pg… 67 Margaret Mead 1901
Pg… 68 Maria Mitchell 1818–1889
Pg… 69 Ayn Rand 1905
Pg… 68 Florence Sabin 1871–1953
Pg… 68 Ellen Semple 1863–1932
Pg… 69 Susan Sontag 1933
Pg… 69 Helen Taussig 1898
Pg… 68 Chien–Shiung Wu 1912–
Pg… 73 The Tastemakers From high society to Sesame Street …shaping the nation's style
Pg… 77 Louisa May Alcott 1832–1888
Pg… 75 Caroline Astor 1830–1908
Pg… 79 Catharine Beecher 1800–1878
Pg… 75 Irene Castle 1893–1969
Pg… 77 Edna Woolman Chase 1877–1957
Pg… 78 Julia Child 1912–
Pg… 80 Joan Ganz Cooney 1929–
Pg… 80 Elsie de Wolfe 1865–1950
Pg… 77 Fannie Farmer 1857–1915
Pg… 74 Sarah Hale 1788–1879
Pg… 77 Mary Margaret McBride 1899–1976
Pg… 79 Claire McCardell 1905–1958
Pg… 78 Dolley Madison 1768–1849
Pg… 78 lrna Phillips 1903–1973
Pg… 73 Emily Post 1873–1960
Pg… 74 Madame C. J. Walker 1867–1919
Pg… 82 Footlights A song, a dream, a smile
Pg… 85 Maude Adams 1872–1953
Pg… 91 Josephine Baker 1906–1975
Pg… 85 Lucille Ball 1911
Pg… 90 Ethel Barrymore 1879–1959
Pg… 86 Lotta Crabtree 1847–1924
Pg… 89 Hallie Flanagan Davis 1890–1969
Pg… 89 Colleen Dewhurst 1924
Pg… 92 Judy Garland 1922–1969
Pg… 83 Helen Hayes 1900
Pg… 86 Katharine Hepburn 1909
Pg… 83 Adah Isaacs Menken 1835?–1868
Pg… 91 Marilyn Monroe 1926–1962
Pg… 89 Mary Pickford 1893
Pg… 92 Lillian Russell 1861–1922
Pg… 83 Bessie Smith 1894–1937
Pg… 89 Barbra Streisand 1942–
Pg… 91 Shirley Temple 1928
Pg… 86 Mae West 1893–
Pg… 94 Women for Women Pioneers in the struggle for equal rights
Pg… 96 Susan B. Anthony 1820–1906
Pg… 94 Elizabeth Blackwell 1821–1910
Pg… 97 Tennessee Claflin 1845–1923
Pg… 96 Abigail Scott Duniway 1834–1915
Pg… 99 Betty Friedan 1921
Pg… 98 Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1860–1935
Pg… 99 Juliette Gordon Low 1860–1927
Pg… 95 Mary Lyon 1797–1849
Pg… 98 Ellen Swallow Richards 1842–1911
Pg… 99 Margaret Sanger 1883–1966
Pg… 96 Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815–1902
Pg… 99 Gloria Steinem 1934
Pg… 97 Lucy Stone 1818–1893
Pg… 97 Frances Willard 1839–1898
Pg… 97 Victoria Woodhull 1838–1927
Pg… 100 Alice Paul At 91 the former suffrage leader still promotes her brainchild?the ERA By Vivian Gornick
Pg… 105 Onward the Sisterhood These days the action is collective Text by Gaylen Moore, photographed by Neal Slavin
Pg… 110 Five Great Spirits They have put us in touch with something beyond ourselves
Pg… 113 Jane Addams 1860–1935
Pg… 116 Marian Anderson 1902
Pg… 113 Clara Barton 1821–1912
Pg… 110 Helen Keller 1880–1968
Pg… 114 Eleanor Roosevelt 1884–1962