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Famous Women In The U.S.A.
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"Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did and she did it backwards and in high heels."
— Robert Thaves [1924-2006]
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'history of women in the United States' entry at Wikipedia
General Works
search books on keywords 'famous American women' {returns over 5,000 titles} at Amazon
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 | "Their Day In The Sun: Women of The Manhattan Project (Labor And Social Change)" [1999] by Ruth H. Howes & Caroline C. Herzenberg, Foreword by Ellen C. Weaver, PhD The Manhattan Project was not just in Los Alamos - it was, in fact, a sprawling research and industrial enterprise that spanned the country from Hanford in Washington State to Oak Ridge in Tennessee, and the Metallurgical Laboratory in Illinois; the Manhattan Project included women in every capacity Temple Univ Press 9x6 pb [4/2003] for $30.95 Temple Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [10/99] for $58.41 watch 10/2016 interview with Ruth Hege Howes [2/2017 upload; 16:43] at YouTube |
 | "New Mexico Heroines of The Twentieth Century: Role Models For Today" [2022] by Ron Hamm, PhD compelling stories of historical notables including Katherine Acoya Augustine of Laguna Pueblo, Mary Austin, Willa Cather, the Harvey Girls, Ida Jackson, painter Agnes Martin, potter Maria Martinez of San Ildefonso Pueblo, Frances Nunnery, artist Georgia O'Keeffe, activist Olive Rush, folk singer Jenny Vincent, Clara Belle Williams Sunstone Press 9x6 pb [2/2022] for $22.95 Sunstone Press 9x6 hardcover [2/2022] for $34.95 |
Movies, Plays, Other Media
"! W.A.R.: Women Art Revolution" [Hotwire Prodns June 2011]
 | For more than forty years, artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman-Leeson collected interviews with her contempo-raries and shaped them into an intimate portrayal of their fight to break down barriers facing women both in the art world and society at large • Co-produced by Abigail Disney & Susan Swartz; co-produced & directed by and featuring Lynn Hershman-Leeson; a rousing score by Carrie Brownstein; also featuring Miranda July, Yvonne Rainer, The Guerilla Girls, Judy Chicago, Marina Abramovic, Yoko Ono, Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger, B. Ruby Rich, Ingrid Sischy, Carolee Schneemann, Miriam Schapiro, Hannah Wilke, New Museum founder Marcia Tucker, and countless other groundbreaking figures •
full credits at IMDb •
official movie site
Zeitgeist Films widescreen color DVD [3/2012] for $13.99 Zeitgeist Films widescreen color DVD [3/2012] for $19.99 watch 3/2011 official trailer [1:46] online at YouTube watch full movie [7/2015 upload; 1:22:52] online at YouTube - requires sign-in as proof of age |
Activists
Susan B. Anthony
eco-activist Rachel Carson [1907-64]
labor leader Dolores Huerta
Rosa Parks
Gloria Stein
Public Officials
Shirley Chisolm
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg [1933-2020]
Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico
U.S. Congresswoman [NM-CD1 2013-2018], New Mexico Governor [2019-2026]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Lujan_Grisham
Deb Haaland of New Mexico
U.S. Congresswoman [NM-CD1 2019-2021]; appointed Secretary of The Interior, 4/2021
U.S. Sen. & U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris
First Lady Michelle Obama
First Lady Jackie Kennedy Onassis [1929-94]
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt [1884-1962]
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
Artists & Performers
actress Theda Bara [1885-1955]
silent-era star Clara Bow [1905-65]
actress Louise Brooks [1906-85]
actress Marion Davies [1897-1961]
actress Bette Davis [1908-89]
actress Marlene Dietrich [1901-92]
actress Frances Farmer [1913-70]
actress-director Jodie Foster
The Gabor Clan
entertainer Judy Garland [1922-69]
actress Dorothy Gish [1898-1968]
actress Lillian Gish [1893-1993]
actress Jean Harlow [1911-37]
actress Audrey Hepburn [1929-93]
actress Katharine Hepburn [1907-2003]
Frida Kahlo [1907-54] Art Page
actress Carole Lombard [1908-42]
actress Marilyn Monroe [1926-62]
folk artist Grandma Moses [1860-1961]
silent-era star Pola Negri [1894-1987]
silent-era star Mabel Normand [1892-1930]
actress Maila 'Vampira' Nurmi [1922-2008]
Georgia O'Keeffe [1887-1986] Art Page
iconic pin-up model Bettie/Betty Page [1923-2008]
silent movie star Mary Pickford [1892-1979]
actress Debbie Reynolds [1932-2016]
actress Thelma Ritter [1902-69]
dancer-actress Ginger Rogers [1911-95]
actress Jane Russell [1921-2011]
actress Norma Shearer [1902-83]
actress Barbara Stanwyck [1907-90]
actress Elizabeth Taylor [1932-2011]
child actress Shirley Temple [Black] [1928-2014]
silent-era star Olive Thomas [1894-1920]
actress Thelma Todd [1906-35]
actress Lana Turner [1921-95]
actress Mae West [1893-1980]
Oprah Winfrey
actress Anna May Wong [1905-61]
actress Natalie Wood [1938-81]
actress Fay Wray [1907-2004]
Writers, Authors, Poets
Louisa May Alcott [1832-88]
mystery author Donna Andrews
Lilian Jackson Braun [1913-2011]
sci-fi author Octavia E. Butler [1947-2006]
author Willa Cather [1873-1947]
mystery author Laura Childs
children's author Beverly Cleary [1916-2021]
mystery author Margaret Coel
mystery author Beverly Connor
poet Emily Dickinson [1830-86]
mystery author Sue Grafton [1940-2017]
playwright Lillian Hellman [1905-84]
mystery author J.A. Jance
mystery author Susan Kandel
fantasy author Madeleine L'Engle [1918-2007]
sci-fi author Ursula K. Le Guin [1929-2018]
Mabel Dodge Luhan [1879-1962]
screenwriter Frances Marion [1886-1973]
mystery author D.R. Meredith
mystery author Marilyn Meredith
Margaret 'Peggy' Mitchell [1900-49]
Joyce Carol Oates
Dorothy Parker [1893-1967]
expatriate author Gertrude Stein [1874-1946]
Harriet Beecher Stowe [1811-96]
Gertrude C. Warner [1890-1979]
{created 'The Boxcar Children'}
mystery author Betty Webb
Southern writer Eudora Welty [1909-2001]
Edith Wharton [1862-1937]
Laura Ingalls Wilder [1867-1957] & Little House On The Prairie
Fictional Characters
girl detective Nancy Drew
surfing legend Gidget
Sue Grafton's detective Kinsey Milhone
railroad tycoon Dagny Taggart of "Atlas Shrugged" [1957]
Wonder Woman
Other Categories
architect Mary Jane Colter [1869-1958]
aviator Amelia Earhart [1897-1937]
Helen Keller [1880-1968] +
Quotations Page
The 'Radium Girls' Page
philosopher Ayn Rand [1905-82] +
Quotations Page
atomic spy Ethel Rosenberg
'The Black Dahlia' Elizabeth Short [1924-47]
home & fashion tycoon Martha Stewart
Valerie Plame Wilson
Image Gallery
U.S. Mint Distinguished American Women Coins Program, 2022-2025
Beginning in 2022 and continuing through 2025, the U.S. Mint will issue up to five new reverse designs each year.
 Maya Angelou [1928-2014] of North Carolina |
 Wilma Mankiller [1945-2010] of Oklahoma |
 Nina Otero-Warren [1881-1965] of New Mexico |
 Dr. Sally Ride [1951-2012] of California |
 Anna May Wong [1905-61] of California |
L i n k s
'history of women in the United States' entry at Wikipedia
search books on keywords 'famous American women' {returns over 5,000 titles} at Amazon
here on the Famous Women In The U.S.A. Page at Spirit of America Bookstore
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