Enterprising Women
Subtitle: 250 Years of American Business
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: October 9, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780807827628
Subjects: Economic history; Entrepreneurship; Women's studies; 20th century; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Corporate & Business History - General; Entrepreneurship Of Specific Groups; Women In The U.S.; Women; Business & Economics; Biography / Autobiography; History; Business/Economics; USA; Business; Social Science / Women's Studies; United States - General; Women's Studies - General; Biography; Businesswomen; Exhibitions; United States; Katherine Goddard; Katharine Graham; Madame C. J. Walker; Lane Bryant; Hazel Bishop; Myra Bradwell; Ida Rosenthal; Elizabeth Arden; Rebecca Lukens; Martha Coston; Olive Beech; Rose Knox; Marjorie Merriweather Post; Ellen Demorest; Lydia Pinkham; Hattie Carnegie; Helena Rubenstein; Sarah Breedlove Walker; Sara Spencer Washington; Annie Turnbo Malone; Isabella Greenway; Jennie Grossinger; Patricia Stevens; Jean Nidetch; Joyce Chen; Margaret Rudkin; Pepperidge Farms; Lillian Vernon; Martha Stewart; Oprah Winfrey; Julia Morgan; Maggie Lena Walker; Ruth Handler
First sentence: One customarily thinks of enterprising women as the contemporary businesswomen of the twentieth century, busily leading their corporations into the frontiers of economic competition and success.