Women of Strength: Biographies of 106 Who Have Excelled in Traditionally Male Fields, A.D. 61 to the Present [Paperback]

Louis Baldwin (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0786402504 | ISBN-13: 978-0786402502 | Publication Date: November 1996

In A.D. 61 Boadicea led the Britons in a fierce uprising against their Roman occupiers. In 1966, Barbara Jordan was elected to the Texas State Senate, the body's first black member in 83 years, and six years later she was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. On December 23, 1986, Jeana Yeager and Dick Rutan became the first people to fly nonstop around the world. These women and 103 others are profiled here. They come from a wide variety of careers-military leaders, entrepreneurs, politicians, journalists, pilots, scientists, and others-but all were leaders in fields dominated by men. The focus of the profiles is rightly on the women's accomplishments, but also examined are the obstacles they overcame in reaching their leadership positions.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Similar to the Continuum Dictionary of Women's Biography (Continuum, 1989), the Larousse Dictionary of Women is the more substantive of the two works considered here. International in scope, it contains about 3000 biographical sketches of notable women from ancient times to the present. The sketches are two or three paragraphs long and offer quotations, a chronology, and sometimes photographs. About half of these sketches have been gleaned by Larousse staffer Parry from previous Larousse dictionaries, while the remainder are new. Baldwin (Triumph Over the Odds: Inspirational Success Stories, Carol Pub., 1994) has a more limited goal in presenting women who have excelled in traditionally male fields, i.e., law, science, sports, journalism, politics, and business. Despite the title, nearly all of the women profiled are from the 20th century. These profiles are about two pages in length and informal, almost chatty, in tone. Since 106 women are profiled, inevitably there are omissions, e.g., Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman physician in America. Nearly half of Baldwin's subjects are not in the Larousse work. Although Baldwin includes a short list of sources, neither book offers any bibliographic references on individuals. The Larousse work could be a companion to the Continuum work in a public or academic reference collection. Baldwin's book is a marginal purchase for reference collections but may be appropriate for popular circulating collections.?Patricia A. Beaber, Coll. of New Jersey, Trenton
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review

"lively portraits" -- ARBA

Product Details

• Paperback: 242 pages
• Publisher: Mcfarland & Co Inc Pub (November 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786402504
• ISBN-13: 978-0786402502
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,241,202 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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