Beyond the glass ceiling : forty women whose ideas shape the modern world / edited by Sian Griffiths ; with an introduction by Helena Kennedy.

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1996.

v, 282 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

"In association with the Times higher education supplement"

Margaret Boden -- Jocelyn Bell Burnell -- Marilyn Butler -- Hélène Cixous -- Sarah Coakley -- Cynthia Cockburn -- Linda Colley -- Mary Daly -- Kay Davies -- Natalie Zemon Davis -- Anita Desai -- Mary Douglas -- Mildred Dresselhaus -- Uta Frith -- Carol Gilligan -- Jean Berko Gleason -- Jane Goodall -- Susan Greenfield -- bell hooks -- Sarah Hrdy -- Carole Jordan -- Catharine MacKinnon -- Emily Martin -- Mary Midgley -- Martha Nussbaum -- Ann Oakley -- Camille Paglia -- Griselda Pollock -- Mamphela Ramphele -- Jessica Rawson -- Condoleezza Rice -- Susan Richards -- Jacqueline Rose -- Alice Stewart -- Marilyn Strathern -- Deborah Tannen -- Julie Theriot -- Marina Warner -- Mary Warnock -- Shirley Williams.

Includes bibliographical references