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Title Uppity women of the New World / Vicki León.
Author León, Vicki.
Publication Info. Berkeley, Calif. : Conari Press, c2001.
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Description 314 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-307) and index.
Contents First Ladies & superlative travelers -- Spies & she-merchants -- Chain breakers & rebellion makers -- Creative boatrockers & career widows -- Swashbucklers & gender benders -- Game dames & granite grannies -- Early Aussies & South Sea self-starters -- Headline makers & risk-takers -- Celebrity kin & significantly overlooked others.
Subject Women -- History.
Women -- Biography.
Women colonists -- Biography.
Women explorers -- Biography.
ISBN 1573241873 $15.95