Mary Gabriel
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"Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic, always exhilarating chronicle of five women who dared to enter the male-dominated world of twentieth-century abstract painting -- not as muses but as artists. From their cold-water lofts, where they worked, drank, fought, and loved, these pioneers burst open the door to the art world for themselves and countless...
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For four and a half decades, Etta and Claribel Cone roamed artists' studios and art galleries in Europe, building one of the largest, most important art collections in the world. At one time, these two independently wealthy Jewish women from Baltimore received offers from virtually every prominent art museum in the world, all anxious to house their hitherto private assemblage of modern art. In 1949, they awarded all their holdings to the Baltimore...
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"With her arrival on the music scene in the early 1980s, Madonna generated nothing short of an explosion -- as great as that of Elvis or the Beatles -- taking the nation by storm with her liberated politics and breathtaking talent. Within two years of her 1983 debut album, a flagship Macy's store in Manhattan held a Madonna look-a-like contest featuring Andy Warhol as a judge, and opened a department called "Madonna-land." But Madonna was more than...
4) Victoria Woodhull: Visionaria, sufragista, y primera mujer candidata a la Presidencia de los EE.UU
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Pocas mujeres han sido tan sorprendentes, tan fascinantes y perseverantes...Victoria Claflin Woodhull, más tarde conocida como Victoria Woodhull Martin (1838—1927), fue una líder del movimiento por el sufragio femenino.
En 1872, se convirtió en la 1ª mujer en presentar su candidatura para la presidencia de los Estados Unidos. Además de su labor como activista a favor de los derechos de las mujeres y de las reformas laborales, apoyaba el amor...