Women Who Led the Way (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: David King Boynick
- First Published: 1959
- Time of Work: 1797–1959
- Setting: New England and Ohio
- Principal Characters: Mary Lyon, Susan B. Anthony, Belva Ann Lockwood, Antoinette Brown, Alice Hamilton, Lillian M. Gilbreth, Frank Gilbreth, Amelia Earhart, Dorothy Shaver
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Social action, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Education or educators, Science or scientists, Midwest, Ohio, Doctors, New England, Ministry or ministers, Women’s issues, Women, Lawyers, Business or business people, Aviation or aviators, Women’s rights, Biography, Career women
- Locales: Ohio, New England
Form and Content
In Women Who Led the Way: Eight Pioneers for Equal Rights, David King Boynick devotes a separate chapter to each of eight American revolutionary women who fought for equality and excelled in law, ministry, medicine, industry, engineering, aviation, and business. His book is introductory, exposing the reader to such well-known activists as Susan B. Anthony but including such lesser-known heroines as Alice Hamilton. Women Who Led the Way was reprinted in 1972 and includes a separate bibliography for each woman as well as an index. It does not...
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