Extraordinary women in politics
By: Charles Gulotta
Series: Extraordinary people; Extraordinary people
Publisher: Children's Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780516206103; 9780516263991
Subjects: Juvenile literature; Biography; Political activity; Women
Description: Presents biographical sketches of women who have been influential in the world's political arenas throughout history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-277) and index.
Table of contents: title: Ancient world; title: Cleopatra VII; title: Isabella I; title: Catherine de Medicis; title: Mary, Queen of Scots; title: Catherine the Great; title: Sojourner Truth; title: Woman's suffrage; title: Elizabeth C. Stanton; title: Susan B. Anthony; title: Queen Victoria; title: Tz'u-hsi; title: Queen Liliuokalani; title: Aleksandra Kollontai; title: Jeannette Rankin; title: Eleanor Roosevelt; title: Margaret Chase Smith; title: Golda Meir; title: Sirimavo Bandaranaike; title: Indira Gandhi; title: Ella Grasso; title: Eugenia Charles; title: Eva Peron; title: Bella Abzug; title: Shirley Chisholm; title: Margaret Thatcher; title: Jeane Kirkpatrick; title: Violeta Barrios de Chamorro; title: Sandra Day O'Connor; title: Vigdis Finnbogadottir; title: Nancy Kassebaum; title: Corazon Aquino; title: Madeleine Kunin; title: Ann Richards; title: Jane Byrne; title: Edith Cresson; title: Geraldine Ferraro; title: Barbara Jordan; title: Barbara Mikulski; title: 1992: year of the woman; title: Dianne Feinstein; title: Barbara Boxer; title: Carol Moseley-Braun; title: Madeleine Albright; title: Gro Harlem Brundtland; title: Patricia Schroeder; title: Mary Robinson; title: Wilma Mankiller; title: Christie Todd Whitman; title: Hanna Suchocka; title: Tansu Ciller; title: Hillary Rodham Clinton; title: Olympia Snowe; title: Kim Campbell; title: Benazir Bhutto; title: Activists; title: gloria Steinem; title: Aung San Suu Kyi; title: Bernadette Devlin McAliskey; title: Women in world politics; title: Important dates in women's political history; title: Organizations and online sites.