History

This essential book illustrates the important events and figures surrounding the suffrage movement; literature, art, and music; business leaders and breakthroughs; political history and office holders; advances in science and medicine; and other vital topics.

Contains all the material a reader needs to understand the role of women throughout America's political history.

4th edition; comprehensive and valuable compendium of biographies of leading women in U.S. politics, past and present, and an examination of the wide range of women's movements.

Contains concise, straightforward summaries, analyzing and explaining groundbreaking court cases on the issue of abortion.

Looks at the history of gender roles and rights in the United States and how public opinion about them have developed and changed over time. This is accomplished through a series of events represented by primary or secondary source documents, including speeches, letters, articles, book excerpts, texts of law, and opinions of Supreme Court justices. Each carefully chosen document demonstrates an essential aspect of that moment in American history and culture.

Examination of the interdisciplinary, intersecting fields of gender studies and the history of the United States military.

3rd Edition, profiles American Indian women who have had an impact on American Indian society and the world at large. Dispels popular myths and introduces the reader to numerous women whose stories have often remained untold until now.

Profiles some of the most influential and innovative women in the history of American business.

This A-to-Z format biographical dictionary covers notable American women in sports - both athletes and coaches - and is inclusive regionally, chronologically, and multiculturally.

This 2nd Edition is an engaging resource that provides readers with insightful, up-to-date biographies of select women in the performing arts from the 19th century to the present.

This 2nd Edition is an informative reference work that covers American women in the world of the visual arts from the eighteenth century to the present day.

This 2nd Edition offers fascinating coverage of notable American women who have been proven leaders and activists in both the political and social realms.

This engaging resource examines the stories of women from a wide array of cultures and generations who share a love of writing. These women are also united by the unique challenges facing women writers - some having to opt for masculine pen names in order to be published.

3rd Edition; profiles women who fought against stereotypes throughout history and all over the world to forge new discoveries and theories that would eventually change the way we view science.

Features more than 250 A-to-Z entries on important American activists and social leaders from colonial times to the present.

Get to know the foremost minds within technology, medicine, military, religion, and entertainment. Each figure's life and accomplishments are put into context, showing how their contributions changed the world we live in.

Engaging biographies for those seeking contextual information on the world's most influential people.

Provides an authoritative and accessible look at the lives of the men and women who have shaped science.

Revised and extended 2nd edition of a highly regarded reference work that illuminates the lives of Scottish women in history. With fascinating lives on every page, the Dictionary offers concise entries that illustrate the lives of Scottish women from the distant past to the early twenty-first century, as well as the worldwide Scottish diaspora.

Biographical information about women: historical, current, and worldwide.

Introduces readers to some of the most remarkable scientists, mathematicians, authors, and world leaders of all time - individuals who are well worth knowing on a personal and professional level.

Tells the lives of twenty-five female scientists, with specific attention to astronomers and mathematicians. The book will be of interest to all who wish to learn more about the women from antiquity to the nineteenth century who played such key roles in the history of astronomy and science despite living and working in largely male-dominated worlds.