Forgotten Women
Subtitle: The leaders
By: Zing Tsjeng
Series: Forgotten Women
Publisher: Cassell Illustrated
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781788400411
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Women in public life; Women; Women heads of state; Biography; Leadership in women
Description: Short biographies of women leaders, both the well known, and the largely forgotten.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-209) and index.
Table of contents: title: The rebels. Carlota Lucumi; title: Grace O'Malley; title: Christina of Sweden; title: Doria Shafik; title: Lakshmibai; title: Agent 355; title: Noor Inayat Khan; title: Njinga Mbandi; title: Virginia Hall; title: Ranavalona; title: Tarenorerer; title: The warriors. The Trung sisters; title: Tomyris; title: Khawlah bint al-Azwar; title: Mochizuki Chiyome; title: Qiu Jin; title: Edith Margaret Garrud; title: Ching Shih; title: Zenobia; title: Amina of Zazzau; title: Matilda of Tuscany; title: Tamar of Georgia; title: The rulers. Hatshepsut; title: Toregene Khatun; title: Brunhilda of Austrasia; title: Zoe Porphyrogenita; title: Catherine de Medici; title: Anacaona; title: Catherine the Great; title: Jadwiga of Poland; title: Isabella of Castile; title: Seondeok of Silla; title: Eleanor of Aquitaine; title: Sammu-ramat; title: The activists. Sylvia Rivera; title: Concepción Picciotto; title: The Mirabal sisters; title: Lillian Ngoyi; title: Jayaben Desai; title: Nazaria Lagos; title: Mary Ann McCracken; title: The reformers. The Radium Girls; title: Zitkala-Sa; title: Ruth Simpson; title: Shirley Chisholm; title: Jeannette Rankin; title: Ida B. Wells; title: Sojourner Truth.