The Quotable Woman: The First 5,000 Years - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816045755 ISBN 13: 9780816045754

Publisher: Checkmark Books, 2001

Synopsis

A cromprehensive reference encompasses more than nineteen thousand quotations from nearly four thousand famous and not so famous women from biblical times to the present day on such topics as friendship, love, politics, religion, education, the arts, and women's roles in society. Simultaneous.

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About the Author

Elaine T. Partnow is the author of The Female Dramatist and previous editions of The Quotable Woman for Facts On File. She is also a performing artist, playwright, and arts-in-education specialist with thirty years of experience on stage and in film. She lives in Seattle, WA.

From Booklist

Thirty-five years ago, Partnow began her “excavation of women’s history” by compiling collections of quotations by women. This revised edition is her latest and biggest: some 1,350 new contributors and more than 4,000 new quotations (about a quarter of the quotations included in this collection) have been added. Partnow estimates that to make room for these new quotations and contributors, about 1,000 quotations from the previous edition, and even some of the contributors, had to be cut. For that reason, collections owning the earlier edition should keep it. This volume, like its predecessors, is organized chronologically, and each contributor is assigned a number, and within each entry, each quotation is also numbered. There are four indexes (biographical, career and occupation, ethnicity and nationality, and subject), and entries in each of them provide further information on the quoted. An effort was made to include more women from developing nations, resulting in more of the words of women from the African continent, the Middle East, and South Asia. The chronologically arranged quotations provide a kind of survey of women’s history. Reading through them illustrates the concerns and challenges faced by women through the ages, and the variety of careers and occupations represented highlight women’s accomplishments. As one of the best organized and most carefully documented quotation collections currently available in print, this title is recommended for all reference collections. --Carolyn Mulac

Edition details

• Publisher: Checkmark Books
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816045755
• ISBN 13: 9780816045754
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 974
• Editor: Partnow Elaine