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Multicultural and worldwide in its coverage. Recommended for general readers and lower-division undergraduates, and as a general reference for all educators. Choice What do women want? For one thing they will want [this publication]. I suspect men will want it, too. Kirstin Olsen has compiled a sui generis of reference materials. Nothing else compares--not in scope, coverage, or depth...A definite buy for all libraries, public and academic. RQ

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction Acronyms The Chronology Bibliography Index

About the Author

KIRSTIN OLSEN is author of Remember the Ladies: A Woman's Book of Days (1989) and other books. She is working on a one-act play about Queen Elizabeth I and a historical novel set in England and France from 1770 to 1792. She has taught high school and middle school English and worked as a free-lance writer.

Reviews

?An ambitious, multiethnic chronology of women's achievements from 20,000 B.C. to A.D. 1993. Students would find this easy-to-read resource a good starting point for assignments.?- School Library Journal

?Multicultural and worldwide in its coverage. Recommended for general readers and lower-division undergraduates, and as a general reference of all educators.?-Choice

?The Chronology makes available information difficult to acquire elsewhere. History and Women's Studies reference collections should find this a useful volume.?- Reference Book Review

?This reference work is filled with facts about women: short biographies, women's issues and organizations, and women's accomplishments worldwide from prehistory through 1993. The entries are short, and topics are diverse. Although the entries are short, the global scope makes this a valuable reference tool as well as one of those interesting-to-browse volumes. Highly recommended.?-The Book Report

?Unlike some books I have seen, there doesn't appear to be any filler material or mention of women without significant feminist historical reference. As a feminist interested in women's past, I found all the entries I browsed useful and relevant.?-Prehistory

?What do women want? For one thing they will want the new Greenwood Press publication Chronology of Women's History. I suspect men will want it too. Kirstin Olsen has compiled a sui generis of reference materials. Nothing else compares--not in scope, coverage, or depth--since this is the first publication to give the chronicle of women as known at this date and time. As with many reference works, it's a fascinating read. The 107-page index is monumental and a virtual listing of who's who among women. A definite buy for all libraries, public and academic.?-RQ

"An ambitious, multiethnic chronology of women's achievements from 20,000 B.C. to A.D. 1993. Students would find this easy-to-read resource a good starting point for assignments."- School Library Journal

"Multicultural and worldwide in its coverage. Recommended for general readers and lower-division undergraduates, and as a general reference of all educators."-Choice

"The Chronology makes available information difficult to acquire elsewhere. History and Women's Studies reference collections should find this a useful volume."- Reference Book Review

"This reference work is filled with facts about women: short biographies, women's issues and organizations, and women's accomplishments worldwide from prehistory through 1993. The entries are short, and topics are diverse. Although the entries are short, the global scope makes this a valuable reference tool as well as one of those interesting-to-browse volumes. Highly recommended."-The Book Report

"Unlike some books I have seen, there doesn't appear to be any filler material or mention of women without significant feminist historical reference. As a feminist interested in women's past, I found all the entries I browsed useful and relevant."-Prehistory

"What do women want? For one thing they will want the new Greenwood Press publication Chronology of Women's History. I suspect men will want it too. Kirstin Olsen has compiled a sui generis of reference materials. Nothing else compares--not in scope, coverage, or depth--since this is the first publication to give the chronicle of women as known at this date and time. As with many reference works, it's a fascinating read. The 107-page index is monumental and a virtual listing of who's who among women. A definite buy for all libraries, public and academic."-RQ