The Palgrave Macmillan dictionary of women's biography

The Resource The Palgrave Macmillan dictionary of women's biography
Label
The Palgrave Macmillan dictionary of women's biography
Statement of responsibility
editor of the third and fourth editions, Maggy Hendry ; original compiler and editor, Jennifer S. Uglow ; assistant editor on first edition (for science, mathematics, and medicine), Frances Hinton
Title variation
Dictionary of women's biography
Contributor
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
  • "This fourth edition of the Dictionary of Women's Biography includes women who have hit the headlines in the five years since the last edition - including Condoleezza Rice, Nigella Lawson, Paula Radcliffe, Brenda Hale and Tracey Emin. Some notable omissions have been corrected. Yoko Ono, for example, used to be vilified as the woman who broke up the Beatles, but has now comprehensively proved herself to be what she has always been - a conceptual artist in her own right. Historical coverage has been broadened in response to new research and our commitment to campaigning women worldwide is as strong as in the previous edition
  • We have pleasure in including activists from Afghanistan, Africa, Australia, India, Mexico, the UK and the US, including, for example, eminent Indian environmentalist Vandana Shiva and grass-roots activists such as Eileen Wani Wingfield and Eileen Kampakuta Brown, award-winning Australian septuagenarians who oppose nuclear testing and nuclear-waste dumping on their ancestral lands."--BOOK JACKET
Member of
Biography type
collective biography
Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
920.72
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • bibliography
  • dictionaries
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