Suggestions for

[Kali]

books about famous women or not so famous women that have done something extraordinary. Biographies, autobiographies, present day, or any time in history?

[gateley]

1. Kali is my favorite goddess -- I love that you have her name and avatar.

This might be a stretch because it's actually a novel, but The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George was fascinating. I learned more about the history of that time than I ever did in school. The book is actually her writings to Isis, telling of her life.

[Kali]

7. and its actually my name

I love when I get to actually use it - most of the time it is already taken as a username on websites. heh

Thanks

[gateley]

11. Your name is Kali and my name is Mary Ellen -- where's the justice in that?

My view of Kali is that she loves fiercely -- that's so powerful.

[Stephanie]

2. Jeannette Rankin, elected to Congress in 1916

Women's suffrage enacted in 1920! Yay Montana!

[defendandprotect]

3. Eleanor Roosevelt still beats them all --- she was good and bad --- and wonderful!

Are you writing a book --- or looking for things to read?

AND --- Betty Friedan, of course --- !!!

[Kali]

8. Gift, actually.

But adding to my reading list too!

[Wwagsthedog]

4. Infidel. nt

[Richardo]

5. Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780060542573&itm=1



"When J. P. Morgan called a meeting of New York's financial leaders after the stock market crash of 1907, Hetty Green was the only woman in the room. The Guinness Book of World Records memorialized her as the World's Greatest Miser, and, indeed, this unlikely robber baron -- who parlayed a comfortable inheritance into a fortune that was worth about 1.6 billion in today's dollars -- was frugal to a fault. But in an age when women weren't even allowed to vote, never mind concern themselves with interest rates, she lived by her own rules. In Hetty, Charles Slack reexamines her life and legacy, giving us, at long last, a splendidly "nuanced portrait" (Newsweek) of one of the greatest -- and most eccentric -- financiers in American history."

[China_cat]

6. Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony

Mothers of Feminism: The Story of Quaker Women in America by Margaret Hope Bacon

[Kali]

9. thanks, all.

Some good ones here.

[MountainLaurel]

10. Helen Keller: A Life

I found this book particularly interesting because it went into great detail about the parts of HK's life that have been hidden from popular view: her socialism, unusual religious predilictions, love life (she was separated from a man she wanted to marry by the people around her).

[Catsbrains]

12. African American women autobiographies .....

Angela Davis, Dorothy Height, Assata Shakur, Elaine Brown, to name a few.

[femmocrat]

13. "Lighting the Way" by Karenna Gore Schiff

"Nine Women Who Changed Modern America". Includes chapters on Mother Jones, Frances Perkins, Dolores Huerta, and other less well-known activists.

[Sabriel]

14. Here are a few you might like

Maiden Voyage (18 y.o. sails alone around world)

http://www.amazon.com/Maiden-Voyage-Tania-Aebi/dp/0345410122

An Unreasonable Woman (woman shrimper fights Gulf polluters alone)

http://www.amazon.com/Unreasonable-Woman-Shrimpers-Politicos-Polluters/dp/1933392274/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b

The Excellent Doctor Blackwell (struggles of the first female doctor)

http://www.amazon.com/Excellent-Doctor-Blackwell-Female-Physician/dp/0750941405/ref=pd_sim_b_img_3

[Richardo]

15. That reminds me: "Hungry Ocean" by Linda Greenlaw

First woman swordfisher captain.