Patricia Ireland (born 1945), who started her career as an airline flight attendant, became a successful corporate lawyer in the mid-1970s but found her true calling as head of the powerful National Organization for Women (NOW), of which Ireland was...

Patricia Ireland Born October 19, 1945 Oak Park, Illinois Women’s rights activist and lawyer Patricia Ireland went to law school in the 1970s with the aim of defending women, workers, and victims of human rights abuses. Instead she wound up...

Patricia Ireland (born October 19, 1945 in Oak Park, Illinois) is a U.S. administrator and feminist. She served as president of the National Organization for Women, from 1991 to 2001 and published an autobiography, What Women Want, in 1996. Ireland...

NOW seven-year president Patricia Ireland talks about the feminist organization's present involvement with issues affecting women, as well as the current issues confronting not only the association but all the world's women as well. She claims that her tenure as president has inspired her...

New York: Cambridge University Press 266 pp., $59.95, ISBN 0521-79318-1 Publication Date: November 2001 Patricia Ann Palmer specializes in Renaissance literature and language at the University of York. This monograph grew out of her doctoral dissertation at Oxford on the "linguistic colonization"...

Today is Friday, Oct. 19, the 292nd day of 2007. There are 73 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Oct. 19, 1781, British troops under Gen. Lord Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, Va., as the American Revolution neared its end.On this date:In 1765, the...

Today is Friday, Oct. 19, the 292nd day of 2007. There are 73 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Oct. 19, 1781, British troops under Gen. Lord Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, Va., as the American Revolution neared its end.On this date:In 1765, the...