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The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience is a book co-authored by Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former U.S. first lady, senator, and secretary of state, and her daughter Chelsea Clinton. It is Hillary Clinton's eighth book with her publisher, Simon & Schuster.
It was released on October 1, 2019, and includes portraits of "gutsy women" including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Mary Ritter Beard, Harriet Tubman, Edith Windsor, and Malala Yousafzai. In many cases the authors describe how the subjects influenced their lives and in some cases how they met them.
In explaining their motivation to write the book, the authors say, "If history shows one thing, it's that the world needs gutsy women. So in the moments when the long haul seems awfully long, we hope you will draw strength from these stories. We do." Hillary Clinton added, "This book is a continuation of a conversation Chelsea and I have been having since she was a little girl, and we are excited to welcome others into that conversation."
The book received mixed-to-positive critical notices from those media outlets that reviewed it. It spent ten weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list.




Background


The first book co-authored by the mother and daughter, it has sections labeled as "Hillary", "Chelsea", and "Hillary and Chelsea" to clarify who wrote what. The former wrote in longhand while the latter sought to use collaborative software, making the writing process somewhat frustrating. The book was also written with the assistance of Lauren Peterson, a former speechwriter from her 2016 presidential campaign. There are no footnotes or other indications in the book of where the research for the profiles comes from.
Financial terms of the book were not disclosed when the project was announced in August 2019.




Contents


More than one hundred women are featured in the volume, selected from more than two hundred essays the pair wrote. Entries range from 17th-century nun and self-taught scholar Juana Inés de la Cruz to contemporary teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, and include women who are little known to the general public. Some of the less familiar subjects include astronomer Caroline Herschel, doctor Mary Edwards Walker, pediatrician and professor Mona Hanna-Attisha, and women's rights advocate Manal al-Sharif. Some family members of the Clintons are also included as subjects.
The cover image shows, as the authors state, a group of women firefighters in a training exercise at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard sometime after U.S. entry into World War II. (The photograph has often been mislabeled as being made during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The story behind the black-and-white image was told by investigative reporter Bill Dedman in 2011. It has been colorized for the cover of this book.)




= Complete list

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These are the entries in the book, as listed in its Table of Contents:



Early Inspirations

First Inspirations
Harriet Tubman
Anna Pavlova, Isadora Duncan, Maria Tallchief, and Virginia Johnson
Helen Keller
Margaret Chase Smith
Margaret Bourke-White
Maria von Trapp
Anne Frank
Rigoberta Menchú Tum
Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Florence Griffith Joyner



Education Pioneers

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Margaret Bancroft
Juliette Gordon Low
Maria Montessori and Joan Ganz Cooney
Mary McLeod Bethune
Esther Martinez
Daisy Bates
Patsy Mink, Bernice Sandler, and Edith Green
Ruby Bridges Hall
Malala Yousafzai



Earth Defenders

Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Rachel Carson
Jane Jacobs and Peggy Shepard
Jane Goodall and "The Trimates"
Wangari Maathai
Alice Min Soo Chun
Greta Thunberg



Explorers and Inventors

Caroline Herschel and Vera Rubin
Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper
Margaret Knight and Madam C.J. Walker
Marie Curie and Irène Joliot-Curie
Hedy Lamarr
Sylvia Earle
Sally Ride
Mae Jemison



Healers

Florence Nightingale
Clara Barton
Elizabeth Blackwell, Rebecca Lee Crumpler, and Mary Edwards Walker
Betty Ford
Mathilde Krim
Dr. Gao Yaojie
Dr. Hawa Abdi
Flossie Wong-Staal
Molly Melching
Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha
Vaccinators



Athletes

Alice Coachman and Wilma Rudolph
Junko Tabei
Billie Jean King
Diana Nyad
Abby Wambach
Michelle Kwan
Venus and Serena Williams
Ibtihaj Muhammad
Tatyana McFadden
Caster Semenya
Aly Raisman



Advocates and Activists

Dorothy Height and Sojourner Truth
Ida B. Wells
Eleanor Roosevelt
Elizabeth Peratrovich
Rosa Parks and Claudette Colvin
Coretta Scott King
Dolores Huerta
The Peacemakers (Joyce McCartan, Monica McWilliams, Leymah Gbowee, and Tawakkol Karman)
Victoria Mxenge
Ai-jen Poo
Sarah Brady, Gabby Giffords, Nelba Màrquez-Green, Shannon Watts, and Lucy McBath
Nza-Ari Khepra, Emma González, Naomi Wadler, Edna Chavez, Jazmine Wildcat, and Julia Spoor
Becca Heller



Storytellers

Maya Angelou
Mary Beard
Jineth Bedoya Lima
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
America Ferrera
Ali Stroker
Amani Al-Khatahtbeh



Elected Leaders

Bella Abzug
Shirley Chisholm
Ann Richards
Geraldine Ferraro
Barbara Jordan
Barbara Mikulski
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Wilma Mankiller
Michelle Bachelet
Danica Roem



Groundbreakers

Frances Perkins
Katharine Graham
Constance Baker Motley
Edie Windsor
Ela Bhatt
Temple Grandin
Ellen DeGeneres
Maya Lin
Sally Yates
Kimberly Bryant and Reshma Saujani



Women's Rights Champions

Rosa May Billinghurst
The Suffragists (Anna Julia Haywood Cooper, Mary Church Terrell, Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt)
Sophia Duleep Singh
Fraidy Reiss
Manal al-Sharif
Nadia Murad




Promotional activities


Upon the book's release, the authors appeared on several television talk shows to promote it. They also staged a book tour around the country, with some appearances being held under the title "An Evening and Conversation with Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton". Sales were brisk in some locations, with tickets for an appearance at the Trinity United Methodist Church in Denver being gone within an hour.
Additional attention came to Hillary Clinton during interviews for the book, as publication of it happened to coincide with the filing on an official impeachment inquiry against the man who had defeated her in the 2016 election. At a book tour appearance at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, which drew some 650 people, she said, "How appropriate that we would talk about a constitutional crisis such as the one we are in, right here at the Constitution Center." She asked whether anyone in the president's party was willing to act like the pioneering U.S. senator Margaret Chase Smith, who was one of the profiles in the book.




Reception


The book received a positive notice from Viv Groskop, writing for the British newspaper i, who praised the "beautifully written stories of women's lives" and characterized it as "possibly a first: a cultural artefact inspired by a mother and a daughter which is neither cringeworthily sentimental nor frighteningly bitchy." Groskop concluded by saying, "The whole thing feels like a restrained statement of rebellion and also a sort of consolation." Feminist author Jo Freeman, writing for SeniorWomenWeb, said "This is a book that every young woman needs to read." Nancy Gilson in The Columbus Dispatch wrote that "a sense of female camaraderie permeates the book. ... It is a pleasure to read about favorite female heroines and an even greater pleasure to discover new ones."
Others were more critical, like The Daily Telegraph's Madeline Grant, who criticized the book for failing to include Margaret Thatcher – "the ultimate gutsy woman" in her words. Camilla Long of The Sunday Times wrote that the book "isn't a book of feminist icons – it's a list of people who think the same as Hillary." Keziah Featherstone, writing for TES, said that for educators the book was "a great introduction for those dedicated to a diverse and representative curriculum ... the range included is undoubtedly terrific." But she noted that the work "is framed as a long (long) conversation between mother and daughter" and said that was a detriment to readers who did not care that much about the Clintons.
The Book of Gutsy Women sold almost 30,000 print copies in its first week of availability, good for second place in the Publishers Weekly ranking of adult nonfiction. The book debuted at number two on The New York Times Best Seller list for combined print and e-book nonfiction for the week of October 20, 2019. In subsequent weeks it fell to number eight and then number thirteen, fell off the list, then reappeared for two more weeks at numbers fourteen and ten, fell off the list, then reappeared again at number fifteen. It fell off the list again, only to reappear during the holiday shopping season at number eight and then number six. This was followed by a drop to number thirteen and then, for its final appearance, number fifteen for the week of January 12, 2020. In all it had appeared on the list on ten non-consecutive weeks.




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Excerpt published by CBS News
Authors discussing book on C-SPAN

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