Bibliograph

The girl explorers, the untold story of the globetrotting women who trekked, flew, and fought their way around the world, Jayne Zanglein

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The girl explorers, the untold story of the globetrotting women who trekked, flew, and fought their way around the world, Jayne Zanglein

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The girl explorers

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1226797923

Responsibility statement

Jayne Zanglein

Sub title

the untold story of the globetrotting women who trekked, flew, and fought their way around the world

Summary

""Don't take women when you go exploring!" In 1932, Roy Chapman Andrews, the president of the Explorers Club, told hundreds of female students at Barnard College that women and exploration could never mix. He obviously didn't know a thing about either... The Girl Explorers is the inspirational and untold story of the women who broke apart the stuffy men's club and founded the Society of Woman Geographers (SWG), and how some key members-including Blair Niles, Amelia Earhart, Gloria Hollister, and Anna Heyward Taylor-paved the way for women scientists by scaling mountains, exploring the seas, flying across the Atlantic, and recording the world through film, sculpture, and art"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Front Cover -- Front Flap -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Cast of Characters -- Author's Note -- Prologue: Banned -- PART 1: MERE WOMEN -- Reckless -- A Place of Their Own -- Go Home Where You Belong! -- A Mere Woman -- Reno-vation -- PART 2: EARLY ADVOCATES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS -- The Prison Special -- The Backwash of War -- Birth of a Nation -- PART 3: THE "GIRLS" OF THE TROPICAL RESEARCH STATION -- Wanted: A Chaperone -- Too Many Girl Pictures -- PART 4: ADVOCATING FOR BLACK PEOPLE, GAY MEN, AND FRENCH PRISONERS -- Imprisoned by WhitenessCondemned to Devil's Island -- Gay Harlem -- Races of Mankind -- PART 5: NETWORKING WOMEN -- Only a Passenger -- Friction -- Networking -- PART 6: PAVING THE WAY FOR WOMEN TODAY -- The Matilda Effect -- Seeing with Both Eyes -- Epilogue: The Loss Will Be Ours -- Members of the Society for Woman Geographers -- Selected Bibliography -- Abbreviations -- Illustration Credits -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Back Flap -- Back Cover

Target audience

adolescent

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