Champions for peace
Subtitle: women winners of the Nobel Peace Prize
By: Judith Hicks Stiehm
Edition: Second edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9781442221512
Subjects: Women and peace; Pacifists; Nobel Prizes; Peace; Women Nobel Prize winners; Awards; Nobel Prize winners; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Bertha von Suttner : noble woman and nobel friend; title: Jane Addams : the greatest woman who ever lived; title: Emily Greene Balch : the dismissed professor; title: Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan : sisterhood created by tragedy; title: Mother Teresa : from Macedonia to India; title: Alva Myrdal : world diplomat; title: Aung San Suu Kyi : resisting by staying home; title: Rigoberta Mench Tum : a story that broke the world's heart; title: Jody Williams : internet activist; title: Shirin Ebadi : Muslim judge; title: Wangari Muta Maathai : Kenya's ?green doctor; title: Tawakkol Karman, Leymah Gbowee, and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf : 2011, the year of the women.