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Nine Women Who Changed Modern America
Miramax
February 2006
528 pages
ISBN: 1401352189
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
In this highly readable, illuminating narrative that spans
the twentieth century, Karenna Gore Schiff tells the
remarkable stories of nine influential women who each in her
own way tackled inequity and advocated a change. These women
recognized our country wasn't living up to its promise and
fought to alter it. The women she's selected are as varied as they are
inspirational. Ida B. wells-Barnett, who was born a slave
and fought against lynching; Mother Jones, an Irish
immigrant who organized coal miners and campaigned against
child labor; Alice Hamilton, who pushed for regulation of
industrial toxins; Frances Perkins, who established our
social secruity program; Virginia Durr, a high society
Southern belle who fought the poll tax and segregation;
Septima Clark, who helped to register black voters; Dolores
Huerta, who organized farm workers; Dr. Helen
Rodriguez-Trias, an activist for reproductive rights; and
Gretchen Buchenholz, currently one of the nation's leading
child advocates. Karenna Gore Schiff delivers an intimate and accessible
account of the nine trail-blazing women who deserve not only
to be honored but to have their example serve as a guiding
light for activists and leaders of tomorrow.
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