Title: Women of vision : their psychology, circumstances, and success /
Authors: Gavin, Eileen A.; Clamar, Aphrodite J.; Siderits, Mary Anne.
Publisher: Springer Pub.,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Women United States Biography.
Contents: Dancing women’s freedom : the story of Isadora Duncan / Miriam Roskin Berger, Ilene A. Serlin and Mary Anne Siderits -- Anne Sullivan Macy and Helen Adams Keller : expressing "vision" with fluttering fingers / Hendrika Vande Kemp -- Lillian Evelyn Moller Gilbreth : the woman who "had it all" / Melba J. T. Vasquez -- Alice Paul : constitutional amendment mover and ERA author / Carole A. Rayburn -- Georgia O’Keeffe : American modernist / Lillian Cartwright -- Mary McLeod Bethune : voice of change, life of service / Karen Fraser Wyche and Lisa Abern -- Anna Eleanor Roosevelt : the evolution of an extraordinary leader / Agnes N. O’Connell -- Rachel Carson : the strength of wonder / Ravenna Helson -- "Be-going" : the story of Dorothy Day / Mary Anne Siderits -- Sister Annette Walters’s unfinished dream : "to make the universe a home" / Eileen A. Gavin -- Evelyn Gentry Hooker : the "hopelessly heterosexual" psychologist who normalized homosexuality / Joanne Quarfoth Floyd and Lynda Anne Szymanski -- Athlete of the century : "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias / Lee Joyce Richmond -- Lucille Ball : visions of trauma, crisis, and comedy / Calvin Saxton -- Grace Brewster Murray Hopper : a woman who dared and did / Debra Sue Pate -- Ella Fitzgerald : the singer’s singer / Beverly Greene -- Shirley Chisholm : a catalyst for change / Barbara L. Biales -- The case of the purloined picture : Rosalind Franklin and the keystone of the double helix / Michael Wertheimer -- A second look at our women of vision -- Appendix : study questions and activities for chapters 1 to 17.