來源:http://au.news.yahoo.com/050215/11/t2tn.html LONDON (Reuters) - For Meryl Streep and Yoko Ono, it is recognition at last. For J.K. Rowling and Condoleezza Rice, it is time to join the front ranks. The latest update of the authoritative "Dictionary of Women's Biography" gives an intriguing glimpse into how female high achievers have fought for recognition in a man's world over the past five years. From pilots to poisoners and queens to cooks, more than 2,000 women are listed in a book that gave authors Maggy Hendry and Jenny Uglow a chance to rectify some glaring omissions. ADVERTISEMENT "Yoko Ono was a conceptual artist in her own right but that got lost when she was blamed for the breakup of the Beatles," Hendry told Reuters. In the dictionary's first update for five years, Hollywood veteran Meryl Streep makes her debut as does sitcom pioneer Lucille Ball, the first person to have her own TV production company under her own control. Hendry singles out a striking list of Afro-Americans. "As secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice is now the most powerful woman in the world. Oprah Winfrey strikes a blow for Afro-Americans and the Williams sisters (Venus and Serena) are terrific role models," she said. Hendry felt it was important to put the record straight as she said other reference dictionaries tended to give less than 10 per cent of their entries to women. "I think women are doing very well," she said. "If someone is the first woman to do something, then we put her in. It was very prescient of us to include yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur (who now holds the round-the-world solo sailing record). We knew she was going places." The dictionary includes infamous entries, from 18th century French political assassin Charlotte Corday through to Lorena Bobbitt, who cut off her husband's penis with a kitchen knife after years of abuse and humiliation. Hendry, who has taught in Ghana and written educational books for Africa, said: "My field is Third World women who are at the cutting edge fighting against sexism and religious bigotry. They interest me most as they are doing something for their communities." So, alongside the film stars in the Palgrave Macmillan dictionary, are activists from around the world. Indian environmentalist Vandana Shiva duly makes it, alongside Eileen Wani Wingfield and Eileen Kampakuta Brown, award-winning Australian septuagenarians who oppose nuclear testing and nuclear waste-dumping in their aboriginal ancestral lands. --

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