Course Description

Instructors: Jill Parks and George deMan

This class will look at formidable women of the 20th and 21st century.  We will look at some who are iconic but struggled for their place in a male dominated world:   Nancy Pelosi, RBG, Liz Cheney, Nikki Haley, C.T. Whitman, Sheryl Sandberg, Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir among others.  We will also take a look at those who are not as well known, such as Beryl Markham, Bessie Coleman, Nellie Bly, Emma Goldman, but made their mark- - and finally we will look at those who, fatally flawed by hubris, fate and events, or the machinations of their enemies, failed to grasp the lofty goals they (and perhaps we) sought: Evita Peron, Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, Elizabeth Holmes, and others.