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