TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE

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DEDICATION

INTRODUCTION: BY THEIR WORKS YOU SHALL KNOW THEM

RECKLESS REBELS

Triệu Thị Trinh, Third Century, Vietnam

Mai Bhago, Eighteenth Century, India

Lucy Hicks Anderson, Twentieth Century, United States

Ida B. Wells, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, United States

Doria Shafik, Twentieth Century, Egypt

REVELATORY SCHOLARS

Hypatia, Fourth and Fifth Centuries, Egypt

Fatima al-Fihri, Ninth Century, Morocco

Novella d’Andrea, Fourteenth Century, Italy

Wang Zhenyi, Eighteenth Century, China

Annie Easley, Twentieth Century, United States

RUTHLESS VILLAINS

Isabel I, Fifteenth Century, Spain

Moll Cutpurse, Seventeenth Century, England

Ching Shih, Nineteenth Century, China

Griselda Blanco, Twentieth Century, Colombia and United States

Margaret Thatcher, Twentieth Century, United Kingdom

RESTLESS ARTISTS

Murasaki Shikibu, Eleventh Century, Japan

Artemisia Gentileschi, Seventeenth Century, Italy

Lois Weber, Twentieth Century, United States

Maria Tallchief, Twentieth Century, United States

Elizabeth Catlett, Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, United States and Mexico

RELENTLESS AMAZONS

Khutulun, Thirteenth Century, Mongolia

Ana de Urinza and Eustaquia de Sonza, Seventeenth Century, Peru

Kati Sandwina, Twentieth Century, Austria and United States

Jackie Mitchell, Twentieth Century, United States

Bessie Stringfield, Twentieth Century, United States

AFTERWORD

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

SOURCE NOTES

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

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