Biographies

Contains over 25,000 brief biological entries on women from around the world.

Contains over 1,300 signed articles covering six main areas: biographies; geography and history; comparative culture and society; organizations and movements; womens and gender studies; and other topics in world history.

Contains 10,000 biographical entries profiling women throughout time and throughout the world.

A comprehensive examination of American women scientists across the sciences throughout the 20th century, providing a rich historical context for understanding their achievements and the way they changed the practice of science.

A comprehensive, historical reference work that offers 500 separate articles on all aspects of the history of African American women, from 1619 to the present.

An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films: 1895-1930 gives you immediate access to the histories of many of the women who pioneered the early days of cinema--on screen and off.

Recreates the lives of 60 remarkable Afro-American women, all born in the United States or Canada between the 1740s and the end of the nineteenth century.

A history and celebration of Jewish women through the centuries, this is an indispensable resource about the role of Jewish women from post-biblical times to the twentieth century.

This superb biographical dictionary covers the lives of exceptional women throughout three and a half centuries of American history.

The life stories of 442 American womenvwho have in some way affected contemporary American life are explored in this lauded companion to Notable American Women, 1607-1950.

This latest volume brings the project up to date, with entries on almost 500 women whose death dates fall between January 1, 1976, and December 31, 1999.

Profiles more than 200 women filmmakers.

A one-volume encyclopedic reference to those extraordinary women form around the globe who have made their mark in every division of achievement. More than 260 detailed entries are grouped by each woman's claim to fame.