Barnet, Andrea

"Discusses four influential women--Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters--linked by their choice to break with convention, exploring how their work in their respective fields helped to ignite the progressive movement and offered a more positive way to think about the world"--OCLC.

"Discusses four influential women--Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters--linked by their choice to break with convention, exploring how their work in their respective fields helped to ignite the progressive movement and offered a more positive way to think about the world"--OCLC.

Examines the lives of over twenty women who were influential in the cultural revolution that swept Greenwich Village and Harlem in the early twentieth century, and opened doors for women into new areas of art and activism.