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Format:

Book

Author:

Title:

In praise of difficult women : life lessons from 29 heroines who dared to break the rules / Karen Karbo ; foreword by Cheryl Strayed ; illustrations by Kimberly Glyder.

Publisher, Date:

Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, [2018]

Description:

346 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Summary:

Presents information on female rule-breakers, including Josephine Baker, Jane Goodall, Margaret Cho, and Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Karbo presents brief information on iconic female rule-breakers. She shows how these women charted their paths with little regard for social or cultural expectations, living lives that both illuminate and inspire.

Subjects:

Women -- Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Other Author:

Strayed, Cheryl, 1968- writer of foreword.

Glyder, Kimberly, illustrator.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-342).

Contents:

J.K. Rowling -- Elizabeth Taylor -- Gloria Steinem -- Amy Poehler -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg -- Josephine Baker -- Rachel Maddow -- Coco Chanel -- Martha Gellhorn -- Shonda Rhimes -- Eva Perón -- Helen Gurley Brown -- Edie Sedgwick -- Angela Merkel -- Billie Jean King -- Jane Goodall -- Vita Sackville-West -- Elizabeth Warren -- Margaret Cho -- Amelia Earhart -- Frida Kahlo -- Nora Ephron -- Diana Vreeland -- Kay Thompson -- Laverne Cox -- Hillary Rodham Clinton -- Janis Joplin -- Lena Dunham -- Carrie Fisher.

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LCCN:

2017470661

ISBN:

9781426217746

1426217749

9781426217746

Other Number:

1023510631

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

725597

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

920.72 Karbo