{"id":96,"date":"2012-03-12T12:01:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T12:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forms.lib.uiowa.edu\/exhibits\/previous\/exhibitions-11\/"},"modified":"2012-10-18T12:26:02","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T17:26:02","slug":"chronicle","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/exhibits\/previous\/chronicle\/","title":{"rendered":"Chronicle of Achievement: In Honor of the World&#8217;s Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>February &#8211; March 1989 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\">This exhibition has been prepared in recognition of International Women&#8217;s Day on March 8, 1989. Materials have been selected from the Libraries&#8217; collections to illustrate the accomplishments of women world-wide who have distinguished themselves in various fields of endeavor and who had made important contributions to the arts and sciences. Emphasis is on the Twentieth Century.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;\">Literarcy figures selected include Katherine Mansfield (New Zealand); Flannery O&#8217;Connor (United States); Marguerite Yourcenar (France); Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (India); Alfonsina Storni (Argentina); Clarice Lispector (Brazil); Isabel Allende (Child); Gabriela Mistral (Chile); Natalia Ginzburg (Italy); Marguerite Duras (France); Marina Tsvetaeva (Russia); Luisa Valenzuela (Argentina); Nathalie Sarraute (France); Christa Wolf (Germany); Nadine Gorimer (South Africa); Anna Akhmatova (Russia); Anna Seghers (Germany); Nelly Sachs (Germany); Hualing Nieh (China); and Gertrude Stein (United States).<\/p>\n<p>Representing music, art and film are Thea Musgrave (Great Britain); Lotte Lehmann (Germany); Miriam Makeba (South Africa); Barbara Morgan (United States); Georgia O&#8217;Keefe (United States); and Lina Wertmuller (Italy).<\/p>\n<p>Scientists include several Nobel Prize winners: Marie Curie (Poland); Gerty Cori (Czechoslovakia); Maria Goeppert-Meyer (Germany); Dorothy Hodgkins (Great Britain); and Rosalyn Yalow (United States). Dr. Florence Rena Sabin (United States) first woman professor at Johns Hopkins; Caroline Herschel (Germany) early woman astronomer, and Sonya Kovalesky (Russia) and Amalie Emmy Noether (Germany), both prominent mathematicians will also be included.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives of other fields include Alva Myrdal (Sweden) winner of the Nobel Peace Prize; Shirley Chisholm (United States) first Black congresswoman; Maria Montessori (Italy) founder of a revolutionary teaching method; Helen Blavatsky (Russia) co-founder of the Theosophical Society; Simone Weil (France) writer, philosopher and mystic; Hannah Arendt (Germany) noted 20th Century philosopher; Dorothy Day (United States) founding member of the Catholic Worker Movement; Dervla Murphy (Ireland) exploer and traveler in the Orient; Nadia Comaneci (Romania) first gymnast to achieve a perfect score of ten in the Olympics; Indira Gandhi (India); Corazon Aquino (Phillippines) and Margaret Thatcher (Great Britain) political leaders; Gloria Steinem (United States) womens&#8217; rights activist and founder of Ms. magazine.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"rule\" \/>\n<p><!-- #EndLibraryItem -->This exhibition was prepared by Timothy Shipe, Helen Ryan and Lucy Marino, with assistance from Lauren Goetz.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Iowa Libraries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":77,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"pagetpl-exhibits.php","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/exhibits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/exhibits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/exhibits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/exhibits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/exhibits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/exhibits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/exhibits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96\/revisions\/287"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/exhibits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/exhibits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/exhibits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/exhibits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}