Champions for peace : women winners of the Nobel Peace Prize

Stiehm, Judith Hicks 1935- (Author).

Summary: Fifteen women who won the Nobel Peace Prize by waging peace rather than war.

Record details

ISBN: 9781442221529 (electronic)
ISBN: 9781442221512 (cloth : alk. paper)
Physical Description: 277 pages ; 24 cm.
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Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.