The Coming Woman:

100 Most Important Women of the Twentieth Century
Selected by Ladies Home Journal

Activists & Politicians
Jane Addams; Madeleine Albright; Mary McCleod Bethune; Carrie Chapman Catt; Hillary Rodham Clinton; Marian Wright Edelman; Indira Gandhi; Ruth Bader Ginsburg; Emma Goldman; Anita Hill; Dolores Huerta; Maggie Kuhn; Golda Meir; Rigoberta Menchu; Sandra Day O'Connor; Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis; Rosa Parks; Alice Paul; Frances Perkins; Eva Peron; Jiang Qing; Eleanor Roosevelt; Phyllis Schlafly; Gloria Steinem; Daw Aung San Suu Kyi; Mother Teresa; Margaret Thatcher
Writers & Journalists
Maya Angelou; Hannah Arendt ; Rachel Carson; Agatha Christie; Simone de Beauvoir; Anne Frank; Betty Friedan; Ann Landers; Margaret Mead; Margaret Mitchell; Toni Morrison; Dorothy Parker; Sylvia Plath; Gertrude Stein; Barbara Walters; Laura Ingalls Wilder; Virginia Woolf
Doctors & Scientists
Virginia Apgar; Helen Caldicott; Marie Curie; Rosalind Franklin; Jane Goodall; Grace Hopper; Melanie Klein; Mary Leakey; Barbara McClintock; Lise Meitner
Entrepreneurs
Coco Chanel; Julia Child; Elsie de Wolfe; Katharine Graham; Ruth Handler; Estee Lauder; Jean Nidetch; Mary Quant; Martha Stewart; Oprah Winfrey
Artists & Entertainers
Marian Anderson; Lucille Ball; Margaret Bourke-White; Maria Callas; Isadora Duncan; Ella Fitzgerald; Jane Fonda; Greta Garbo; Martha Graham; Katharine Hepburn; Billie Holiday; Janis Joplin; Frida Kahlo; Dorothea Lange; Madonna; Marilyn Monroe; Georgia O'Keeffe; Mary Pickford; Leni Riefenstahl
Athletes
Nadia Comaneci; Babe Didrikson; Gertrude Ederle; Sonja Henie; Billie Jean King; Suzanne Lenglen; Wilma Rudolph
Pioneers & Adventurers
Nancy Brinker; Helen Gurley Brown; Diana, Princess of Wales; Amelia Earhart; Betty Ford; Helen Keller; Maria Montessori; Jane Roe; Margaret Sanger ; Valentina Tereshkova.

To find out more about these women, go to yahoo.com or altavista.com
and type the woman's name into the search box. (It might help to put her
name in quotation marks.)

Special Topic: Violence against Women

Many links to articles on Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, Sex Selection, Prostitution, FGM here.

Iranian Fundamentalim: protest speech by Maryam Rajavi; online pamphlet on Women, Islam, and Equality by Rajavi; Rajavi biography and links. Many links about Taliban fundamentalist in Afghanistan; Women's resistance groups in Afghanistan; the Tibetan Women's Association and the oppression of Tibetan women by Chinese military. Not violence, but certainly discrimination: Why Women Can't Drive.
Sexual Assault Information Page--many links; Interactive Theatre--many links to rape topics, including family of the rape victim; athletics and rape; what the rapist is thinking; etc. Worldwide Domestic Violence Resource Page--links to many countries around the globe. Here is a Definition of Rape in International Law.
Rising Daughters Aware (Female Genital Mutilation; ban on FGM in Egypt; anti-FGM efforts (from Awaken): many links here by About.com. Warrior Marks--critique of Alice Walker's movie on FGM and on how to effect change; Links to many articles on FGM. More sites here: The Issue of Female Circumcision; Female Genital Mutilation on Trial [The Atlantic]; Linda Burstyn, Female Genital Mutilation Comes to America [The Atlantic]; Female Genital Mutilation Research Homepage. See also Campaign against FGM in Egypt and Gambia.
Dowry Deaths--many links; Fair Sex or Fair Game (Dowry violence); Honor Killings--many links; Honor Killings in Pakistan; Acid Attacks in Bangladesh; and Femicide. Here is a news article on 60 Million Missing Women. Bride Burning, FGM, and related topics: Women & Human Rights.
Global Prostitution: Sex Tourism; Coalition against Trafficking in Women; several links on Sexual Slavery and Rape in Nepal; many links here. More on Rape in Nepal. Excellent NY Times article on Trafficking in Slavic [Russian] Women. More on Sex Tourism: Spice Girls? Reflections on the Sexualised Trade in Women's Bodies--sex trade industry in Thailand and around the globe. See Campaign against Legalization of Prostitution.
National Coalition against Domestic Violence; check out these facts/statistics and these predictors of domestic violence; more information on domestic violence facts here; connection between domestic violence and alcohol/drug use; violence against rural women--also has links to resources in Spanish. In-depth essay on Domestic Violence and the Theoretical Discouse of Freedom--the kinds of "unfreedom" to choose experienced by victims of domestic violence.
Other resources on violence against women: U.S. Dept of Justice/U of Minnesota resource page; Violence Against Women Online Resources; Feminist Majority's Links on Violence against Women--includes all kinds (stalking, incest, war and rape, etc.)
War and Rape: Rape and Genocide in Kosovo; Serb and Croatian rape/torture; article on Women, Rape, and War; Rape in Sierra Leone Wars; The Comfort Women Project--women forced into sexual slavery by Japanese during WWII. Rape as a Weapon of War.

Sexual Assault Information Page--list of links to web pages on all aspects of the subject. Youth Believe Forced Sex is Acceptable

Women's Rights are Human Rights: Amnesty International's Freedom from Violence Campaign.

Poster designed by Barbara Kruger to advertise
the 1989 March on Washington in support of Roe v. Wade.

Women's Reproductive Health

Pro-Choice, not Pro-Abortion
Lest We Forget (when abortions were illegal)
Abortion: Historical Perspectives--many links
Alan Guttmacher Statistics/Articles: see especially Abortion in Context: United States and Worldwide; Late-Term Abortions: Legal Considerations; Induced Abortion: Incidence of Abortion
For further research: About.com links (see left column also) to just about any aspect of abortion you want to research; also covers teen pregnancy, etc.
Web Sites on Reproductive Health--another long list of links to web sites on many aspects of the topic.
Abortion in the US: Legal but Inaccessible
Pregnancy and Birth--links to related issues, especially Teen Sex and Pregnancy
Population Control, Reproductive Technology, etc.--many links. See especially Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control--three chapters from an important book-length study by Betsy Hartmann.
Global Population 6 Billion: A Time for Choices--UN Report on Population Issues; see especially Chapter 3.
Racism, Birth Control, and Reproductive Rights--important essay by Angela Davis
Women of Color Web: Reproductive Rights
The Politics of Fetal/Maternal Conflict--by noted biologist Ruth Hubbard
Recommended: Many good articles on Abortion: Gender, Politics and Rights here; on contraception, reproductive technologies, sexuality, HIV/AIDs, maternal health (including breast-feeding), population and family planning, teenzone, sexually-transmitted diseases, etc., here.
The State vs. Midwives--home birthing

Women Working for Change:
Environmental Activism

Wangari Maathai.--biography; another biography. Wangari Maathai and the Green Belt Movement in Kenya-- more news (CNN) on the event here; read more about this remarkable woman; here is an excellent site on the range of her activities. Saving the Earth, Tree by Tree--excellent article. Her World Conference Statement in Beijing . News article: Wangari Maathai: You Strike the Woman. Maathai speech: Bottlenecks of Development in Africa. Online Postings: Ecologist Attacked and Her Women's Army Defies an Iron Regime. See also Green Belt Uprising.and WEDO Condemns Brutal Attack. Maathai: Her Leadership Theory--several links at bottom of page. Forest Profile: Wangari Maathai. Another biography here.
Colleen McCrory--another tree-lover activist (British Columbia). Emmy Hafild--another forest activist (Indonesia). Marina Silva--activist for Brazil's forests.
Judi Bari: Environmental Warrior--biography. Champion of the Redwoods--good article. Judi Bari and the Redwood Timber Wars--detailed site about the role of environmental heroine Judi Bari in the Northern California redwood battles. A newspaper article on her life and death is here. Earth First! Sues FBI--; the Bombing of Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney. Another biography.
The Luna Tree-sit and Julia Butterfly--many links. Circle of Life Foundation--many links. Julia Butterfly Hill: Ecology Hall of Fame. Deep Ecology for the 21st Century--lots of Butterfly information. Earth Day 2000 with Julia Butterfly Hill--interview. Julia Butterfly Hill calls on Environmentalists to Unite in Love.
Chipko Women's Movement in India--follow the link to a more detailed look at this forest resources protection movement also. More on the Chipko Movement and the more feminist Mahila Mandel.
Vandana Shiva--bioraphy. Another biography. Vandana Shiva's interview on the Chipko Movement; Farming in India: Biodiversity and Economics--Vandana Shiva & the Chipko women. Shiva's Bioethics: A Third World Issue. Two interviews: here and here. A biography. Essay on Ecological Recovery and the Feminine Principle. Think Globally, Act Globally--Shiva speech. Shiva on MacDonald's Exploitation.
Arundhati Roy Home Page--see the links on the Narmada Dam and Arundhati's activism. News article on the effects on Indian women. Dams Being Built on Backs of the Poor--news article.
Medha Patkar--biography of another famous Indian activist. See also Medha Patkar and her protest against the Narmada Dam and Patkar's anti-nuclear letter.
Celia Hunter--Ecology Hall of Fame on this Alaskan wilderness activist..
Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp--women's anti-nuclear protest. An update on the outcome of the protests is here. More here on the effects on women. Another excellent site on the Women's Peace Camp is here. Interesting review of book on the Peace Camp. 20th Anniversary--update. Womenwith Hill Women's Peace Camp[aign]--
Joann Tall; for more on the Indian Reservations/uranium mining problems, see my Eco-feminist Literature web page--see also links on eco-justice and on Winona LaDuke.
First Environment Research Project--Katsi Cook's Mother's Milk Project. More on the Akwesasne Mother's Milk Project here. Pulling the Baby out of the Earth--good site; check out the "Environmental Injustice" link. Iroquois Nation, Iroquois Tribe--biography and interview with Katsi Cook. Health and Justice Activists--many related links.
Aurora Castillo & MELA (Mothers of East Los Angeles)--urban environmental justice group.
Terry Tempest Williams--see links on Williams and on "Breast Cancer and the Land" on my Eco-feminist Literature web page. Brief biography here.
Terri Swearingen-anti-toxic wastes activist; see also Activist Mom and The Long War. Sweringen--biography.
Rachel Carson Home Page. PBS biography of Carson is here, and Ecology Hall of Fame has a biography and links on her. Information on her wildlife refuge; Vice-President Al Gore's "Introduction" to the 1994 reprinting of Carson's Silent Spring. Fable for Tomorrow and comments . 100 Persons of the Century. Good review/summary of Silent Spring. Instead of DDT, now it is Dioxin. Another biography. Many links here on Carson and effects of pesticides, and toxins on women.
Lois Gibbs--Ecology Hall of Fame biography on this anti-hazardous waste activist. Lois Gibbs: Champion of Love Canal. Lois Gibbs: Environmental Activist. Gibb's Legacy of Love Canal; a review of Gibbs' book is here. Information about PCBs (chlorine dangers). Another biography. Another biography. Harrisburg Incinerator--Love Canal in the Sky?--recent Gibbs' lecture. Center for Health, Environment, and Justice--Gibbs' organization.
Oral Ataniyazova--anti-contaminated water activist
Helene Aylon's anti-nuclear art--some comments by Aylon here. Contemporary Women's Environmental Art: Nature, Culture, Public Space--a number of contemporary urban women artists. Here are more women environmental artists and even more here.
Bernadette Cozart--The Greening of Harlem--scroll down to her name. Activist Gardener Digs in Harlem--good article. Urban Green Gardening: Community Investment (Bernadette Cozart); summary of A Patch of Eden and urban projects by Cozart & other women; Greening of Harlem;--notes on a Cozart speech. A similar group is The Green Guerillas. Community Partnerships Paint the Town Green--scroll down the page to this short article.
Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo--good introduction. The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. News article on Agentina's "Dirty War" and more here. A chronology and history of the Madres is here. A review of a book on the Madres is here. More on the abuelas (grandmothers) of May Square here. Disappearances as terror tactics.
Helena Norberg-Hodge--for some of her work on sustainable development in Tibet, see Solar Box Cooking (The Ladakh Project in India): ISEC--the ecology organization she founded; an interview with Norberg-Hodge; information about her book Ancient Futures.
Jane Goodall Institute--info. on her life, the work of the institutte, programs for change, chimpanzees, etc. More here. Dian Fossey or here or here (with pictures). See also Biologists--click on the Joy Adamson link. More on Joy and George Adamson--additional links at bottom of page.
Rosalie Barrows Edge. See also Ecology Hall of Fame biography of Rosalie Edge and her Hawk Mountain Sanctuary. Here is some background on the turn-of-the century bird problem: Feather Trade and American Conservation Movement (four-part Smithsonian Exhibit: click on "Virtual Exhibitions" and on "Feather Trade." View "Feather Adornment," " Hunting," "Collecting," and "Audubon Movement"). .
Anna Giordano--bird conservationist
Janet Gibson--marine ecosystem activist.

Contemporary Women's Issues: Global

Equal Pay Chart; Facts on Working Women; Equal Pay and Work.

Gender Equity Project: many links to global & contemporary issues

Hillary Rodham Clinton, Women's Rights are Human Rights

International Gender Studies Resources

On Gender and Sexual Orientation; Sexual Prejudice; Hate Crimes; many articles on all aspects of sexual orientation here.

NOW (National Organization for Women)-many links on many subjects.

Feminist Theory Website--links to different feminisms, including by country

Lesbians in Yugoslavia

Polish Women in the 90s--comprehensive report on everything from violence and health care to work and media.

Feminist Majority--links to global issues, reproductive rights, etc.

Sisterhood is Global Institute (SIGI)--women's issues around the globe, including violence against women; newletter and "action alerts"

State of Women in Eastern Europe (former Communist Countries)

Women and the Environmental Movement--many links on my Eco-Resources web page, including a section on Eco-Feminism and on Environmental Racism. See also my web pages on Ecofeminist Literature Part A and Part B.

Gender in African & Other Post-Colonial Literature

Women's Studies Resources

African Statue,
artist unknown