Particular Passions

Particular Passions: Talks with Women who Shaped our Times

Arts
Nancy Hanks
Tatyana Grosman
Agnes de Mille
Dorothy Canning Miller
Louise Nevelson
Aileen Osborn Webb

Architecture
Denise Scott Brown
Ada Louise Huxtable

Astronomy
Cecelia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin

Civil & Women's Rights
Bella Abzug
Betty Freidan
Gloria Steinem
Addie Wyatt

Computer Science
Grace Murray Hopper

Culinary Arts
Julia Child

Entertainment
Dede Allen
Lucy Jarvis
Barbara Walters

Education
Joan Ganz Cooney
Elizabeth Duncan Koontz

Fashion
Diana Vreeland

Finance
Sylvia Porter
Muriel Siebert

Horticulture
Ernesta Drinker Ballard

Law
Shirley Hufstedler
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Constance Baker Motley
Eleanor Holmes Norton
Justine Wise Polier

Literature
Frances Steloff

Medicine
Mary Steichen Calderon
Judianne Densen-Gerber
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Helen Taussig

Music
Sarah Caldwell
Alberta Hunter
Mary Lou Williams

Politics & Public Policy
Dorothy Height
Margaret Kuhn

Science
Margaret Mead
Chien-Shiung Wu
Rosalyn Yalow

Sports
Billie Jean King

Theater
Lillian Helman
Ellen Stewart

Theology
Rosemary Ruether