Ahead of Their Time A Biographical Dictionary of Risk-Taking Women

Subjects:

• Women's Studies » Women's Studies (General)
• History » World History (General)

Reviews:

• Junior high school and high school librarians who are needing to purchase reference books about women will definitely want to add this to their collections. Recommended.
  —The Book Report Nov/Dec 2002
• This book is useful in its brevity, its unique criteria for inclusion, and in the attention given to some subjects with very little exisiting or readily available material...for public and small academic libraries with a need for a collection of short biographies of notable, living women who have pushed the envelope in some way and for libraries lacking other adult sources on women adventurers, explorers, and aviators.
  —Reference & User Services Quarterly Fall 2002
• Recommended for school and public libraries.
  —Lawrence Looks at Books July 2002
• ...describes the lives of 75 women from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries who have "broken traditional bounds and ventured into uncharted territory" on land, at sea, or in the air. This easy-to-use, highly readable dictionary is suitable for high-school, public, and undergraduate collections...
  —Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin July 2002

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Harriet Chalmers Adams
• Joy Friederike Victoria Gessner Adamson
• Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz
• Delia Denning Akeley
• Mary Lenore Jobe Akeley
• Jacqueline Marie-Therese Suzanne Douet Auriol
• Isabelle Autissier
• Ann Bancroft
• Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell
• Ruth Fulton Benedict
• Gertrude Benham
• Isabella Lucy Bird Bishop
• Arlene Blum
• Magaret Bourke-White
• Louise Arner Boyd
• Susan Butcher
• Rachel Louise Carson
• Lucy Evelyn Cheesman
• Clare Mary Francis
• Eugenie Clark
• Geraldyn "Jerrie" Cobb
• Jacqueline Cochran
• Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman
• Eileen Marie Collins
• Alexandra David-Neel
• Meta Ann "Annie" Doak Dillard
• Florence Catherine Douglas Dixie
• Amelia Earhart
• Dian Fossey
• Birute Marija Filomena Galdikis
• Jane Goodall
• Ernestine "Dee Dee" Green
• Beatrice Ethel Grimshaw
• Marguerite Elton Baker Harrison
• Mae Carol Jemison
• Amy Johnson
• Mary Henrietta Kingsley
• Monica Kristensen
• Ann LaBastille
• Sharon Christa Corrigan McAuliffe
• Beryl Clutterbuck Markham
• Margaret Mead
• Sylvia Earle Mead
• Ruth Nichols
• Valentina Tereshkova Nikolayev
• Marianne North
• Diana Sneed Nyad
• Annie Smith Peck
• Harriet Quimby
• Sally Kristin Ride
• Freya Stark
• Junko Istibashi Tabei
• Alexandrine Petrinella Francina "Alexine" Tinne
• Fanny Bullock Workman
• Appendix I: Vignettes of Other Women
• Appendix II: Women by Category
• Appendix III: Women by Nationality
• Selected and Auxiliary Bibliography