Women of Vision: Their Psychology, Circumstances, and Success (Focus on Women)

From the reviews: " Women of Vision blends biographical narrative with psychological perspectives on human development, resulting in a moving and passionate book that is suitable for both academic and nonacademic readers. It is a useful tool for teaching purposes or for simple, enjoyable, and informative reading." -- Psychology of Women Quarterly "...a fascinating look of preservation and perceptiveness that is differentiated from its predecessors in its range of disciplines and emphasis...This new 'life course' approach to understanding female leaders gives valuable insight into the lives of these imminent women, furnishing insights into how the social-economic-political milieu and the attitudes and values of the time played a significant role in the lives of these women but also in all our lives. Women of Vision will serve as a springboard for exploration of how the psychologies of individual human lives affect their life-course and as a galvanizing step for many more future women of vision and leadership....The accounts in the book should be of substantial significance for readers interested in gender issues. However, the book will appeal to an even wider audience. Persons hoping to move in new directions in their own lives (e.g., women looking wistfully at new academic and occupational paths after years in stereotypic niches) can surely also find inspiration in the various accounts." -- SirReadaLot.org We all know of women of great vision; women whose efforts and accomplishments have had a major impact on the arts, politics, women's rights, sports, or science. But often we may not understand how they became such powerful agents of change and what sorts of questions we should ask of their pasts to understand how the trajectories of their lives were formed. In this extraordinary textbook, leading experts cast new light on the role of circumstance, accomplishments, and personality in the development of various twentieth-century women of vision. This is a brand new life-course approach to understanding female leaders and gives valuable insight into the lives of such eminent women as Rachel Carson, Evelyn Gentry Hooker, Georgia O'Keeffe, Eleanor Roosevelt, "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias, Ella Fitzgerald, Alice Paul, Lucille Ball, and many others. Study questions and exercises at the end of each chapter further enhance the text. Women of Vision will serve as the springboard for exploration of how the psychologies of individual human lives affect their life-course and a galvanizing step for many more future women of vision and leadership. From the reviews:

"Women of Vision blends biographical narrative with psychological perspectives on human development, resulting in a moving and passionate book that is suitable for both academic and nonacademic readers. It is a useful tool for teaching purposes or for simple, enjoyable, and informative reading."

--Psychology of Women Quarterly

"...a fascinating look of preservation and perceptiveness that is differentiated from its predecessors in its range of disciplines and emphasis...This new 'life course' approach to understanding female leaders gives valuable insight into the lives of these imminent women, furnishing insights into how the social-economic-political milieu and the attitudes and values of the time played a significant role in the lives of these women but also in all our lives. Women of Vision will serve as a springboard for exploration of how the psychologies of individual human lives affect their life-course and as a galvanizing step for many more future women of vision and leadership....The accounts in the book should be of substantial significance for readers interested in gender issues. However, the book will appeal to an even wider audience. Persons hoping to move in new directions in their own lives (e.g., women looking wistfully at new academic and occupational paths after years in stereotypic niches) can surely also find inspiration in the various accounts."--SirReadaLot.org

We all know of women of great vision; women whose efforts and accomplishments have had a major impact on the arts, politics, women's rights, sports, or science. But often we may not understand how they became such powerful agents of change and what sorts of questions we should ask of their pasts to understand how the trajectories of their lives were formed.

In this extraordinary textbook, leading experts cast new light on the role of circumstance, accomplishments, and personality in the development of various twentieth-century women of vision. This is a brand new life-course approach to understanding female leaders and gives valuable insight into the lives of such eminent women as Rachel Carson, Evelyn Gentry Hooker, Georgia O'Keeffe, Eleanor Roosevelt, "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias, Ella Fitzgerald, Alice Paul, Lucille Ball, and many others. Study questions and exercises at the end of each chapter further enhance the text.

Women of Vision will serve as the springboard for exploration of how the psychologies of individual human lives affect their life-course and a galvanizing step for many more future women of vision and leadership.

Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 7 Contributors......Page 11 Foreword......Page 17 Acknowledgments......Page 19 Introduction......Page 23 Part I. Women Whose Lives Spanned Two Centuries......Page 31 CH$1. Dancing Women's Freedowm: The Story of Isadora Duncan......Page 33 CH$2. Anne Sullivan Macy and Helen Adams Keller: Expressing "Vision" With Fluttering Fingers......Page 51 CH$3. Lillian Evelyn Moller Gilbreth: The Woman Who "Had It All"......Page 67 CH$4. Alice Paul: Constitutional Amendment Mover and ERA Author......Page 83 CH$5. Georgia O'Keeffe: American Modernist......Page 101 CH$6. Mary McLeod Bethune: Voice of Change, Life of Service......Page 117 CH$7 Anna Eleanor Roosevelt: The Evolution of an Extraordinary Leader......Page 129 Part II. Women Who Matured During the "Roaring Twenties"......Page 143 CH$8 Rachel Carson: The Strength of Wonder......Page 145 CH$9 “Be-Going”: The Story of Dorothy Day......Page 163 CH$10 Sister Annette Walters’s Unfinished Dream: “To Make the Universe a Home”......Page 181 CH$11 Evelyn Gentry Hooker: The “Hopelessly Heterosexual” Psychologist Who Normalized Homosexuality......Page 199 CH$12 Athlete of the Century: “Babe” Didrikson Zaharias......Page 211 CH$13 Lucille Ball: Visions of Trauma, Crisis, and Comedy......Page 225 CH$14 Grace Brewster Murray Hopper: A Woman Who Dared and Did......Page 237 Part III. Women Who Became Adults in the 1940s......Page 251 CH$15 Ella Fitzgerald: The Singer’s Singer......Page 253 CH$16 Shirley Chisholm: A Catalyst for Change......Page 267 CH$17 The Case of the Purloined Picture: Rosalind Franklin and the Keystone of the Double Helix......Page 281 Part IV. A Second Look at Our Women of Vision......Page 295 CH$18 A Second Look at Our Women of Vision......Page 297 Appendix: Study Questions and Activities for Chapters 1 to 17......Page 311 Index......Page 323 Talks about the role of circumstance, accomplishments, and personality in the development of various twentieth-century women of vision. This book helps in understanding female leaders and gives insight into the lives of such imminent women as: Isadora Duncan; Georgia O'Keefe; Anna Eleanor Roosevelt; Alice Paul; Ella Fitzgerald; and others