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The University of North Carolina Press
208 pp., 9 x 11, 20 color and 80 duotone illus., notes, bibl., index
250 Years of American Business
A 2003 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Meet Katherine Goddard, owner of a print shop and publisher of the first signed copy of the Declaration of Independence; meet Madam C. J. Walker, whose hair care products brought her from her slave parents' dilapidated cabin to her own Hudson River estate; and meet Katharine Graham, publisher of the Pentagon Papers and owner of the Washington Post Company.
These are just three of the diverse women whose lives unfold in this engaging history of women entrepreneurs in America from the colonial era to the end of the twentieth century. Some ran businesses in industries dominated by men, such as iron and aircraft production, while others built businesses that marketed specifically to women, in industries such as beauty, fashion, and food. Despite facing gender discrimination and the burdens of work and family, these women entrepreneurs understood the value of a good idea, were willing to take a risk, and believed in the possibility of the American dream of success.
"Drachman's well-ordered summary of major female accomplishments in the realm of business is a valuable addition to the reference shelf."
--Kliatt
"Inspiring and long overdue."
--Booklist
"A remarkable history of women who created businesses or inherited and ran them. . . . Rescue[s] from oblivion some notable examples from among the legions of entrepreneurial American women."
--Choice
"A valuable contribution to scholarship. . . . [and] demonstrates the achievements of the new field of gender and business history."
--Business History
"Enterprising Women is a companion publication to a national exhibition, but it also stands on its own. The individual narratives are engaging, and together they communicate to the reader the astonishing range of pursuits in which women from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds were engaged."
--New York History
"What an inspiring collection of stories this is. Enterprising Women exquisitely portrays the lives of dozens of women who leaped barriers of family, money, and traditional expectation to build the American economy and to make their own fortunes as well. I am moved and enlightened by this elegantly written and illustrated tale of success."
--Alice Kessler-Harris, author of In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America
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