Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers: Volume One A-L, Volume Two M-Z

Biographical Note:

Helen Rappaport is a professional writer, researcher, Russian translator, and historical consultant, specializing in the 19th century. Her published works include ABC-CLIO's Queen Victoria: A Biographical Companion.

The first comprehensive guide to women activists from every part of the world, illuminating the broad range of women's struggles to reform society from the 18th century to the present.
Despite being marginalized, disenfranchised, impoverished, and oppressed, women have always stepped forward in disproportionate numbers to lead movements for social change. This two-volume encyclopedia documents the visions, struggles, and lives of women who have changed the world.

This encyclopedia celebrates the lives and achievements of nearly 300 women from around the globe--women who have bravely insisted that the way things are is not the way they have to be. Nadeshda Krupskaya, the wife of Lenin, spearheaded the drive against illiteracy in post-revolutionary Russia. American Dorothy Day founded the Catholic worker movement. Begum Rokeya Hossain organized a girls' school in Calcutta in 1911. Rachel Carson launched the modern environmental movement with her book Silent Spring. The stories of these women and the hundreds of others collected here will restore missing pages to our history and inspire a new generation of women to change the world.

• Over 400 A-Z biographical entries, including the childhood, education, achievements, and challenges of each woman
• A timeline that spans the history of women reformers from the French Revolution, to the second wave of feminism in the late 1970s, to the disenfranchised status of women in many countries in the contemporary Middle East
• Numerous drawings and photographs of women reformers
• Two special indexes listing reformers by country and by cause

"It is a valuable addition to any collection on women, social welfare, or reform movements. The selected bibliography is an excellent collection development tool. Recommended for public and academic libraries."

Booklist

"Worldwide coverage and useful indexes make this set a convenient, worthy addition to high school and academic libraries as well as women's studies collections in public libraries."

Library Journal

"This valuable contribution to women's studies includes the stories of more than 400 women from 64 countries and brings into the limelight many forgotten movements and personalities that have had major impacts on history. Readers will be inspired by the fascinating biographies."

American Libraries

"This compilation will be a useful addition to high school, academic, and public libraries . . . It is a useful contribution to the burgeoning world of reference materials dealing with women's biographies."

Feminist Collections

"High school, college, and public libraries, especially those with women's studies collections, will find this set to be a valuable tool."

American Reference Books Annual

Review Citations:

• Library Journal Prepub Alert 03/01/2002 pg. 88 (EAN 9781576071014, Hardcover)
• Booklist 03/01/2002 pg. 1178 (EAN 9781576071014, Hardcover)
• Booklist 04/01/2002 pg. 1354 (EAN 9781576071014, Hardcover)
• Booklist 05/15/2002 pg. 1616 (EAN 9781576071014, Hardcover)
• Voice of Youth Advocates 08/01/2002 pg. 220 (EAN 9781576071014, Hardcover)
• Choice 06/01/2002 pg. 1750 (EAN 9781576071014, Hardcover)
• Booklist 03/01/2003 pg. 1232 (EAN 9781576071014, Hardcover)
• Multicultural Review 03/01/2003 pg. 90 (EAN 9781576071014, Hardcover)
• American Reference Bks Annual 01/01/2003 pg. 392 (EAN 9781576071014, Hardcover)
• Library Journal 03/01/2002 (EAN 9781576071014, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:Rappaport, Helen

Helen Rappaport is a professional writer, researcher, Russian translator, and historical consultant, specializing in the 19th century. Her published works include ABC-CLIO's Queen Victoria: A Biographical Companion.