Bibliograph

Cool women, edited by Pam Nelson ; written by Dawn Chipman, Mari Florence, Naomi Wax ; designed by Amy Inouye

Type

Label

Cool women, edited by Pam Nelson ; written by Dawn Chipman, Mari Florence, Naomi Wax ; designed by Amy Inouye

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 103)

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Cool women

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

46607105

Responsibility statement

edited by Pam Nelson ; written by Dawn Chipman, Mari Florence, Naomi Wax ; designed by Amy Inouye

Summary

Brief biographies of selected notable women, a few of them fictitious, from different countries and periods of history

Table Of Contents

Amazons -- Josephine Baker -- Lucille Ball -- Baseball barnstormers -- Gertrude Bell -- Blues divas -- Nellie Bly -- Margaret Bourke-White -- Calamity Jane -- Maria Callas -- Cleopatra -- Comic book queens -- Madame Curie -- The Babe, Babe Didrikson -- Nancy Drew -- Amelia Earhart -- Evita (Peron) -- Janet Flanner -- Althea Gibson -- Cool goddesses -- Jane Goodall -- Martha Graham -- Harlem Renaissance women -- Hollywood power players -- Isabella of Castille -- Joan of Arc -- Lakshmi Bai, the Rani of Jhansi -- Lozen, Apache warrior -- Mother Jones -- Shirley Muldowney -- Queen Njinga -- Annie Oakley -- Scarlett O'Hara -- Georgia O'Keeffe -- Dorothy Parker -- Lady pirates -- Righteous queens -- Rosie the Riveter -- Lady samurais -- Margaret Sanger -- Soldaderas -- Soviet flying aces -- Lady spies -- Suffragists -- Harriet Tubman -- Women Vikings -- Madame C.J. Walker -- The fearless flying W.A.S.P.s -- Mae West -- Wu Zhao

Target audience

juvenile

Contributor

Creator