Book
Girls can do anything : from sports to innovation, art to politics, meet over 200 women who got there first
Publication Information
Richmond Hill, Ontario : Firefly Books, Ltd., 2016.
Physical Description
318 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits (some colour) ; 20 cm.
Summary
"This book includes over 200 of the strongest, fastest, smartest and most incredible women whose achievements have contributed to the world we live in today. This fact-o-pedia is divided into subjects from science to sports and and include profiles, illustrations, photographs, quotes and trivia."--
Notes
"A Firefly book"--Title page verso.
"First published by HarperCollinsPublishers in 2016"--Title page verso.
Contents
- Sappho
- Saint Hildegard of Bingen - The Mona Lisa
- Artemisia Gentileschi
- Aphra Behn
- Countess D'Aulnoy
- Fairy tales
- Juana Inés de la Cruz
- Julia Margaret Cameron
- Beatrix Potter
- Virginia Woolf
- Coco Chanel
- Ma Rainey
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- Dorothea Lange
- Anni Albers
- Feature: Women in photography
- Margaret Bourke-White
- Josephine Baker
- Katharine Hepburn
- Frida Kahlo
- Ginger Rogers
- Feature: Funny women
- Lucille Ball
- Sister Rosetta Tharpe
- Billie Holiday
- Édith Piaf
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Phyllis Diller
- Morgot Fonteyn
- Maria Callas
- Marilyn Monroe
- Maija Isola
- Yayoi Kusama
- Audrey Hepburn
- Delia Derbyshire
- Feature: Women in music
- Dolly Parton
- Meryl Streep
- Anna Wintour
- Feature: Female fashion-setters
- Oprah Winfrey
- Madonna
- Evelyn Glennie
- J.K. Rowling
- Feature: Women of letters
- The Nightingales
- Beyoncé
- Misty Copeland
- Hatshepsut
- Cleopatra
- Arawelo
- Boudicca
- Wu Zetian
- Joan of Arc
- Queen Elizabeth I
- Catherine the Great
- Ching Shih
- Sojourner Truth
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Lucy Stone
- Susan B. Anthony
- Emmeline Pankhurst
- Nellie Bly
- Helen Keller
- Mother Teresa
- The Girl Scouts and Girl Guides
- Rosa Parks
- Eva Perón (Evita)
- Margaret Thatcher
- Anne Frank
- Sandra Day O'Connor
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Rosie the Riveter
- Aung San Suu Kyi
- Hillary Clinton
- Ford Dagenham Plant sewing machinists
- Feature: Nicely done, New Zealand!
- Malala Yousafzai
- Hypatia of Alexandria
- Maria Gaetana Agnesi
- Marie-Sophie Germain
- Mary Anning
- Ada Lovelace
- Maria Mitchell
- Florence Nightingale
- Bertha RInger Benz
- Clara Barton
- Princess Theresa of Bavaria
- Sofia Kovalevskaya
- Annie Jump Cannon
- Marie Curie
- Emmy Noether
- Ruth Graves Wakefield
- Nise Da Silveira
- Rachel Carson
- Rear Admiral Grace Hopper
- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
- Chien-Shiung Wu
- Mary Leakey
- Hedy Lamarr
- Sylvia Zipset Schur
- Feature: Women in mathematics
- Rosalind Franklin
- Jane Goodall
- Sylvia Earle
- Feature: Women in technology
- Temple Grandin
- Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan
- Maryam Mirzakhani
- Inventors
- Cynisca of Sparta
- Mary "Queen of Scots" Stuart
- Lida Peyton "Eliza" Pollock
- Hilda Hewlett
- Charlotte "Chatty" Cooper Sterry
- Jeanne Calment
- Amelia Earhart
- Amy Johnson
- Mildred Ella "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias
- Sonja Henie
- Virginia Halas McCaskey
- Feature: Women in aviation
- Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova
- Nachthexen "Night witches"
- Billie Jean King
- Rockford Peaches
- Pat Head Summitt
- Feature: Women in tennis
- Martina Navratilova
- Nancy Lieberman
- Lynette Woodard
- Florence "Flo-Jo" Griffith Joyner
- Nadia Comaneci
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
- Nawal El Moutawakel
- Bonnie Blair
- Trischa Zorn
- Josefa Idem
- Kristine Lilly
- Mia Hamm
- Clara Hughes
- Regina Halmich
- Ellen MacArthur
- Venus Williams
- Esther Vergeer
- Serena Williams
- Danica Patrick
- Natalie Du Toit
- Zahra Nemati
- Mary, mother of Jesus
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Harriet Tubman
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Sea change: the waves of faminism.