WOMEN OF WISDOM

In 1972 Lynn Gilbert embarked upon a series of portraits and interviews that became a book about forty-six American women who pioneered in fields that had only been open to men—overcoming enormous obstacles they succeeded in the arts, sciences, athletics, law, mathematics, politics, and other disciplines. As a result of the opportunities they created, they not only changed lives for women in America, but around the world.

The interviews—where each woman shares their journey—became Particular Passions: Talks with Women who Shaped our Times, published in 1982. As their inspirational stories unfold the evolution of the Women’s Movement from the 1920s to the late 1970s in America became visible.