Title:
Champions for peace : women winners of the Nobel Peace Prize / Judith Hicks Stiehm.
Author:
Stiehm, Judith Hicks, 1935- author.
Publication Information:
Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]
Call Number:
JZ5540 .S74 2014
Edition:
Second edition.
ISBN:
9781442221512
Physical Description:
xvii, 277 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 24 cm
Contents:
Bertha von Suttner : noble woman and nobel friend -- Jane Addams : the greatest woman who ever lived -- Emily Greene Balch : the dismissed professor -- Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan : sisterhood created by tragedy -- Mother Teresa : from Macedonia to India -- Alva Myrdal : world diplomat -- Aung San Suu Kyi : resisting by staying home -- Rigoberta Mench Tum : a story that broke the world's heart -- Jody Williams : internet activist -- Shirin Ebadi : Muslim judge -- Wangari Muta Maathai : Kenya's ?green doctor -- Tawakkol Karman, Leymah Gbowee, and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf : 2011, the year of the women.
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