The 100 Most Influential Women of All Time: A Ranking Past and Present
Language: English
Pages: 374
ISBN: 0806519762
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
With the aid of women's studies professors from leading U.S. colleges and universities, Felder has ranked 100 social reformers, women's rights activists, scientists, educators, labor leaders, politicians, rulers, religious leaders, artists, performers, and sports figures who have inspired and changed the world. Profiles include Marie Curie, Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Tubman, Lucille Ball, Simone de Beauvoir, and Rosa Parks. Photos throughout.
V (Charles I of Spain), Mary was commanded by him to come to Spain with a huge cash dowry. This demand ignored, he presently jilted her and concluded a more advantageous match. In 1525 she was named princess of Wales by her father, although the lack of official documents suggests she was never formally invested. She then held court at Ludlow Castle while new betrothal plans were made. Mary’s life was radically disrupted, however, by her father’s new marriage to Anne Boleyn. As early as the 1520s
William Blake, and, after 1793, William Wordsworth. In 1796 she began a liaison with Godwin, and on March 29, 1797, Mary being pregnant, they were married. The marriage was happy but brief; Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin died 11 days after the birth of her second daughter, Mary. (This daughter would later marry Percy Bysshe Shelley and write Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, one of the great Romantic novels.) Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is one of the trailblazing
written evidence to confirm her political status. Soon after Akhenaton’s 12th regnal year, one of the princesses died, three disappeared (and are also presumed to have died), and Nefertiti vanished. The simplest inference is that Nefertiti also died, but there is no record of her death and no evidence that she was ever buried in the Amarna royal tomb. Early Egyptologists, misunderstanding the textual evidence recovered from the Maru-Aten sun temple at Amarna, deduced that Nefertiti had separated
Chiang Kai-shek’s forces were defeated in 1949, and Soong Mei-ling and her family moved to Taiwan, where her husband established his government. Still highly influential, she continued to seek support from the United States, and her efforts helped sway the U.S. government’s policy toward China and Taiwan. After Chiang Kai-shek’s death in 1975, Soong Mei-ling moved to New York, where she lived in semi-seclusion. Following the death in 1988 of Chiang Ching-kuo, Chiang Kai-shek’s son from his first
in August 2000. Shortly after voting in the October parliamentary elections, she suffered a heart attack and died. INDIRA GANDHI (b. Nov. 19, 1917, Allahabad, India—d. Oct. 31, 1984, New Delhi) Indira Gandhi served as prime minister of India for three consecutive terms (1966–77) and a fourth term (1980–84). She was assassinated by Sikh extremists. Indira Priyadarshini Nehru was the only child of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of independent India. She attended Visva-Bharati