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Judy Blume
The perennially best-selling author Judy Blume is a rare phenomenon in children’s literature... Blume's works are characterized by emotional and sexual candor, total empathy with the concerns of childhood, and a direct colloquial tone, giving her readers the sense that she knows all their secrets.
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Julie Taymor
Julie Taymor’s 1997 Tony Award for The Lion King—the first “Directing” Tony given to a woman in the fifty-year history of the Tony Awards—sits in an eclectic collection of professional memorabilia in Taymor’s New York apartment/studio.
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Gerda Lerner
Entering the field of United States history with a freshly minted Ph.D. in 1966, Gerda Lerner blazed a new professional path that led to the establishment of the field of women’s history. The force of her personality and her commitment to the possibilities contained in the historical study of women made her impervious to the ridicule with which the male-dominated historical profession initially responded to the notion of women’s history.
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Jewish Women's Archive. "Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia." <http://jwa.org/encyclopedia> (May 22, 2012).
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