Focus on Women. [Show nos. 1-438]. [videorecording] / Produced in the studios of Cox Cable New York. 1983-1996.

Kingston, Maxine Hong

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Biographical Information Maxine Hong Kingston was born October 27, 1940 in Stockton, California. She received her B.A. degree in Education from the University of California, Berkeley in 1962. Kingston taught high school English and mathematics in Hayward, Calif., and various subjects in a number of schools in Hawaii, and was a visiting associate professor of English at the University of Hawaii. Her book, Woman Warrior: Memoirs Of ...

Elomaa, Ritva-Liisa.

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Hughes, Jane

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Epithet: wife of Admiral Sir Richard Hughes British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000866.0x0003da ...

Katz, Jane

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Kenny, Shirley Strum

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Hensel, Margaret

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Lalli, Cele,

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Hobson, Barbara Meil,

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Newman, Phyllis, 1931-

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Cuomo, Mario Matthew

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Billops, Camille

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Artist and filmmaker Camille Billops was born on August 12, 1933, in Los Angeles, California. Billops' career has consisted of printmaking, sculpture, book illustration and filmmaking. She obtained her B.A. degree from California State University as well as her M.F.A. degree from City College of New York in 1975. Her primary medium is sculpture, and her works are in the permanent collections of the Jersey City Museum in Jersey City, New Jersey, and the Museum of Drawers, Bern, Switzerland. Billo...

Alstadter, Judith

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Meyland, Sarah

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Ferraro, Geraldine, 1935-2011

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Geraldine Anne "Gerry" Ferraro (August 26, 1935 – March 26, 2011) was the first female vice-presidential nominee representing a major American political party. She served in the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 1985 and in 1984 was the Democratic Party's vice presidential nominee, running alongside former vice president Walter Mondale. She was also an ambassador, attorney, journalist, author, and businesswoman. Ferraro grew up in New York City and worked as a public school ...

Gold, Rozanne, 1954-

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Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986.

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Grumbach, Doris.

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Doris Grumbach is a novelist, biographer, and literary critic. Her published works include a biography of Mary McCarthy, THE COMPANY SHE KEPT (1976), the novel CHAMBER MUSIC (1979), and the memoir COMING INTO THE END ZONE (1991). She has served as literary editor of THE NEW REPUBLIC and on the faculties of the College of Saint Rose (Albany, NY), American University (Washington, DC) and the Writer's Workshop of the University of Iowa. Her book reviews and essays have appeared in numerous literary...

Lawrence, Marcia Pruchno

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Kershaw, Norma

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McDermott, Alice

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Brock, Carolyn, 1953-

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Meiji, Emperor of Japan, 1852-1912

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French, Marilyn, 1929-2009

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED Marilyn French was born in New York City in 1929. She married the attorney Robert M. French, Jr. in 1950; the couple divorced in 1967. She received her B.A. in English from Hofstra University in 1951, and later returned to Hofstra for her M.A. degree in the Humanities, which she was awarded in 1964. The couple had two children, and Robert. She earned her Ph.D. in English from Harvard University in 1972. Her dissertation on James Joyce was published by H...

Hayden, Naura

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McFadden, Maryann

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Fleshler, Helen,

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Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Journalist, writer, and social critic, Barbara Ehrenreich was born in 1941 in Butte, Montana, the daughter of Isabelle (Oxley) and Ben Howes Alexander. Her father worked in the copper mines and her mother, a homemaker, was active in the Democratic Party. A graduate of Reed College (B.A. 1963, chemistry and physics) and Rockefeller University (Ph.D. 1968, cell biology), Ehrenreich became involved in the anti-war movement and a member of other progressive causes including low-income h...

Gilliam, Angela, 1936-....

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Angela Gilliam was born in Boston, MA. She attended the University of California at Los Angeles from 1954 to 1958 and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Latin American Studies. From 1958 to 1962 she attended the National School of Anthropology and History in Mexico City to receive her Master of Science in Ethnology and Anthropology. She received her Ph.D. from Union Graduate School in 1975. She was a faculty member in anthropology/social sciences at The Evergreen State College (TESC) from 1988...

Cook, Blanche Wiesen

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History professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. From the description of Research materials for The Declassified Eisenhower, 1945-1970, 1950-1958 (bulk) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155488669 ...

Grey, Al

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Albert Thornton Grey was born in Aldie, Virginia on June 6, 1925 to Richard Edward Grey and Lucy Anna Grey. As a boy Al Grey played the baritone horn at the Goodwill Boys Band of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, led by his father. Al Grey joined the Navy in 1942 at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center. Previous to 1942, African Americans served in the Navy only as mess attendants and stewards. Due to a manpower shortage and discrimination during World War II, however, African Americans wer...

Crawford, Christina, 1939-....

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McMillon, Doris

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Krim, Mathilde

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McGehee, Sharon

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Harris, Elaine K.

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Henry, Sondra

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Gundlach, Julie Kettle

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Holtzman, Elizabeth, 1941-

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Elizabeth Holtzman (born August 11, 1941) is an American attorney and politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives. A Democrat, she represented New York's 16th congressional district for four terms from 1973 to 1981. After leaving Congress, she became the first woman to serve as District Attorney of Kings County (1982-1989) and the first woman to hold the office of New York City Comptroller (1990-1993). A native of Brookly, New York, she graduated from Abrah...

Grossman, Florence

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Budoff, Penny Wise

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Barouh, Gail

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Malbin, Elaine

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Lipton, Eunice

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Newburger, May W.

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Gornick, Vivian

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Grinker, Lori

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Horowitz, Susan

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Bloom, Amy, 1953-....

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Hart, Mallory Dorn

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Leeds, Dorothy

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Cuomo, Matilda

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Huste, Annemarie

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Gottlieb, Alma

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Hurwitz, Johanna

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Johanna Hurwitz is one of the most popular and prolific authors of chapter books for beginning readers and novels for older children. She was born in New York City in 1937, the child of book-loving parents. Johanna decided at an early age to become a librarian and writer, both of which she did. After graduation from Queens College and Columbia University, she began her career as a children's librarian in 1959. Two years later she married and soon had two children.She had been writing poems and s...

Carton, Ellen,

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Kramer, Sylvia

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Liss-Levinson, Nechama

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Brooks, Carol Alvater

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Ellerin, Betty,

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Nakamura, Kaoru, 1937-

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Bair, Deirdre

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Abbott, Shirley

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Lew, Irvina Siegel

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Lazar, Liliane

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Harris, Joanne

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Flomenhaft, Eleanor

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Barstow, Anne Llewellyn.

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Gross, Amy

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Bletter, Diana

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Coyle, Beverly

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Novelist and writer. Coyle taught in the English Dept. of Vassar College from 1977 to 2002. From the description of Beverly Coyle papers, [19--] - 2002. (Vassar College). WorldCat record id: 53911327 ...

Formanek, Ruth

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Koff, Gail J.

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Fluek, Toby Knobel

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Furth, Valerie Jakober 1926-

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Litwack, Georgia

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Collection consists of two black and white photographs by Georgia Litwack: view of water and a rocky shore, 1963 and a self-portrait of the photographer holding a photograph in an oval frame of herself and her husband, 1973. From the description of Photographs by Georgia Litwack, 1963-1973. (Minuteman Library Network). WorldCat record id: 399677821 Photographer and journalist Georgia (Shuset) Litwack graduated from the University of Pittsburgh (A.B. 1942) and worked for Inte...

Burstein, Karen S.

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Cort-Van Arsdale, Diana

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Foyder, Joan Ellen

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Leaf, Ruth

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Mamonova, Tatyana, 1943-

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Isaacs, Susan, 1956-

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Kenigsberg, Abby,

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Crawford, Joan, 1908-1977

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Joan Crawford, actress. From the description of Joan Crawford scrapbooks, 1925-1960, microform. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122517687 From the guide to the Joan Crawford scrapbooks, [microform.], 1925-1960, (The New York Public Library. Billy Rose Theatre Division.) Joan Crawford was a film star whose career spanned five decades, from silent films onward, and who worked in many genres including drama, musicals, comedy, Westerns, and horror films, ...

Morgan, Robin K., 1961-

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Radical feminist activist and poet. From the description of Portraits, n.d. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 48633460 Robin Morgan is the author of many books, including Sisterhood is Powerful (1970) and Sisterhood is Global (1984). From the description of Papers, n.d. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007925 Feminist activist, author, poet, child star, and editor of MS. magazine. From the description of Robin Morgan ...

Greenberg, Selma, 1930-

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McCallum, Taffy Gould

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Newton, Dolores

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Hein, Karen

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