Summary
Many women over the years and throughout the world have challenged preconceptions of what women can do by becoming movers and shakers in the fields of business and law. Women Business Leaders and Lawyers presents lively, engrossing biographies of some of these remarkable women, including Oprah Winfrey, Sandra Day O'Connor, Madame C. J. Walker, and Hetty Green. Each entry focuses readers' attention on the women themselves and their accomplishments, linking their formative experiences with their later achievements.
About the Author(s)
Erika Kuhlman, Ph.D., is director of the Women's Studies Program at Idaho State University. She is the author of several books, including Of Little Comfort: War Widows, Fallen Soldiers, and the Remaking of the Nation after the Great War; Petticoats and White Feathers: Gender Conformity, Race, and the Progressive Peace Movement, and the Debate Over War, 1895–1919; and Reconstructing Patriarchy After the Great War: Women, Gender, and Postwar Reconciliation between Nations as well as numerous scholarly articles.