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There are countless women who have been immensely influential and have helped change the course of history. Selecting from a myriad of such incredible choices, we will consider five biographies that investigate a series of remarkable people. These include the first female doctors, the initial women aviatrixes, World War II spies, heroic stewardesses during the Vietnam War, and a group of Syrian Women who triumphed over the Islamic State. With informal lectures and class discussions, we will examine the following books: The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura; Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History by Keith O’Brien; D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II by Sarah Rose; Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am by Julia Cooke; and The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon. (The public library has multiple copies of each, or you can purchase them from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Thriftbooks or Abebooks.com) Note: Please read The Doctors Blackwell for the first class. No class 10/10.