| International Standard Book Number |
9780593727034 (ebook)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780593727027 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
0593727029 (hardcover)
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| Personal Name |
O'Donnell, Norah, author.
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| Title Statement |
We the women : the hidden heroes who shaped America / by Norah O'Donnell with Kate Andersen Brower.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
viii, 406 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-396) and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Introduction -- Part I: The first fifty years: The women behind America's fight for independence, 1776-1826 -- Mary Katherine Goddard: The printer -- Phillis Wheatley: The poet -- Mercy Otis Warren: The intellectual -- Elizabeth Ellet: The historian -- Elizabeth Freeman: The freedom seeker -- Deborah Sampson: The war fighter -- Patience Lovell Wright: The sculptor -- Part II: Risk takers and rulebreakers: Seneca Falls and the Civil War, 1826-1876. The Grimke´ Sisters: The truth tellers -- Charlotte Forten: The abolitionist -- The women of Seneca Falls: The signers -- The Blackwell Sisters: The doctors -- Dr. Mary Edwards Walker: The Medal of Honor recipient -- Susan and Susette La Flesche: The advocates -- Anna Dickinson: The orator -- Belva Lockwood: The lawyer -- Part three: Blood, sweat, and tears: The Gilded Age and the great demand, 1876-1926. Emily Warren Roebling: The builder -- Katharine Wright: The aviator -- Inez Milholland: The suffragist -- Maddie Lena Walker: The titan of finance -- Mary Tape: The determined mother -- Zitkala-S?a: The writer -- The Hello Girls of World War I: The operators -- The Nineteenth Amendment: The vote -- Agnes Meyer Driscoll: The codebreaker -- Margaret Sanger and Katharine McCormick: The birth control pioneers -- Part IV: Warriors, rebels, and visionaries: Women at war at home and abroad, 1926-1976. Mary McLeod Bethune: the first lady of the struggle -- Eleanor Roosevelt: The great "agitator" -- Frances Perkins: The cabinet member -- The Six Triple Eight: The soldiers -- The New Orleans Four: The barrier breakers -- Romana Acosta Ban~uelos: The treasurer -- Babe Didrikson: "The greatest athlete who ever lived" -- Patsy Mink: The mother of Title IX -- Pat Schroeder: The legislator -- Constance Baker Motley: The judge -- Part V: My lifetime: Women's progress in America, 1976-today.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Over a decades-long, distinguished career, award-winning journalist Norah O'Donnell has made it her mission to shed light on untold women's stories. Now, in honor of America's 250th birthday, O'Donnell focuses that passion on sharing the stories of American heroines who helped change the course of history. We the Women presents a new and extraordinary retelling of American history through the eyes of women, introducing us to inspiring patriots who demanded that the country live up to the promises made 250 years ago in the Declaration of Independence: that "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among those are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." The pressing question from women since the signing of the document has been: Why don't those unalienable rights apply to us? Through extensive research and interviews, as well as old photos and historic documents, O'Donnell curates a compelling portrait of these fierce fighters for freedom. From Mary Katharine Goddard, who printed the first signed Declaration of Independence, to the Forten family women, considered the "Black Founders" of Philadelphia who were active in the abolition and suffrage movements, to the first women who served in the Armed Forces even before they had the right to vote, O'Donnell brings these extraordinary women together for the first time, and in doing so, writes the American story anew." -- Provided by publisher
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women United States Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women heroes United States Biography.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Brower, Kate Andersen, author.
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