Bad girls throughout history 100 remarkable women who changed the world
Book - 2016
"The 100 revolutionary women featured in this illustrated book were bad in the best sense of the word: they challenged the status quo and changed the rules for those who followed. From ancient times through present day, from pirates to artists, scientists to spies, these courageous women achieved unprecedented feats and left a permanent mark on human history."--back cover
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Biographies
- Published
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San Francisco, California :
Chronicle Books
[2016]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- 224 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-222).
- ISBN
- 9781452153933
- Introduction
- Lillith
- Tomyris
- Cleopatra
- Boudica
- Empress Wu Zetian
- Lady Godiva
- Khutulun
- Jeanne de Belleville
- Joan of Arc
- Grace O'Malley
- Queen Elizabeth I
- Artemisia Gentileschi
- Aphra Behn
- Catherine the Great
- Abigail Adams
- Marie Antoinette
- Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun
- Ching Shih
- Jane Austen
- Sojourner Truth
- Anna Atkins
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Ada Lovelace
- Maria Mitchell
- Susan B. Anthony
- Florence Nightingale
- Anita Garibaldi
- Elizabeth Blackwell
- Harriet Tubman
- Amalia Eriksson
- Belva Lockwood
- Annie Edson Taylor
- Fannie Farmer
- Annie Oakley
- Edith Wharton
- Nellie Bly
- Beatrix Potter
- Madam C.J. Walker
- Marie Curie
- Alice Guy-Blache
- Mata Hari
- Lilian Bland
- Margaret Sanger
- Helen Keller
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Georgia O'Keefe
- Elsa Schiaparelli
- Mary Pickford
- Mae West
- Martha Graham
- Edith Head
- Amelia Earhart
- Tallulah Bankhead
- Norma Shearer
- Anais Nin
- Diana Vereeland
- Anna May Wong
- Josephine Baker
- Rachel Carson
- Carmen Miranda
- Bonnie Parker
- Mary Blair
- Gypsy Rose Lee
- Lucille Ball
- Julia Child
- Rosa Parks
- Hedy Lamarr
- Billie Holiday
- Iva Toguri D'Aquino
- Phyllis Diller
- Sister Corita Kent
- Eva Peron
- Betty Friedan
- Helen Gurley Brown
- Dorothy Dandridge
- Bettie Page
- Margaret Thatcher
- Christine Jorgensen
- Coretta Scott King
- Ruth Westheimer
- Maya Angelou
- Barbara Walters
- Marlene Sanders
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Gloria Steinem
- Mary Quant
- Valentina Tereshkova
- Judy Blume
- Junko Tabei
- Nora Ephron
- Angela Davis
- Dolly Parton
- Sally Ride
- Diana Nyad
- Oprah
- Joan Jett
- Madonna
- Tina Fey
- Selena
- Malala Yousafzai.