Mary Gabriel
1) Victoria Woodhull: Visionaria, sufragista, y primera mujer candidata a la Presidencia de los EE.UU
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Pocas mujeres han sido tan sorprendentes, tan fascinantes y perseverantes...Victoria Claflin Woodhull, más tarde conocida como Victoria Woodhull Martin (1838—1927), fue una líder del movimiento por el sufragio femenino.
En 1872, se convirtió en la 1ª mujer en presentar su candidatura para la presidencia de los Estados Unidos. Además de su labor como activista a favor de los derechos de las mujeres y de las reformas laborales, apoyaba el amor...
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For four and a half decades, Etta and Claribel Cone roamed artists' studios and art galleries in Europe, building one of the largest, most important art collections in the world. At one time, these two independently wealthy Jewish women from Baltimore received offers from virtually every prominent art museum in the world, all anxious to house their hitherto private assemblage of modern art. In 1949, they awarded all their holdings to the Baltimore...
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She was the first woman to run for president. She was the first woman to address the U.S. Congress and to operate a brokerage firm on Wall Street. She's the woman Gloria Steinem called "the most controversial suffragist of them all." So why have most people never heard of Victoria Woodhull? In this extensively researched biography, journalist Mary Gabriel offers readers a balanced portrait of a unique and complicated woman who was years ahead of her...
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Little, Brown and Company
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The award-winning master biographer chronicles the meteoric rise and enduring influence of the greatest female pop icon of the modern era who has never stopped experimenting, pushing boundaries that changed culture globally, and fiercely defending a person's right to love whomever--and be whoever--they wanted.