Bygone badass broads 52 forgotten women who changed the world
Book - 2018
Based on Mackenzi Lee's popular weekly Twitter series of the same name, Bygone Badass Broads features 52 remarkable and forgotten trail-blazing women from all over the world. With tales of heroism and cunning, witty bios and in-depth storytelling, Bygone Badass Broads will give new life to these historic female pioneers. Starting in the 5th Century BC and continuing to the present, the book takes a closer look at the bold and inspiring women who dared to step outside of traditional gender roles for their times. Coupled with illustrations and Lee's Drunk History-esque storytelling style, this book is an outright celebration of the badass women who paved the way for the rest of us. -- Provided by publisher.
- Subjects
- Genres
- Biographies
- Published
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New York :
Abrams Image
[2018]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Physical Description
- 174 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-174).
- ISBN
- 9781419729256
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- Tru'ng Tr̐ac & Tru'ng Nhị
- Queen Arawelo
- Fatima Al-Fihri
- Murasaki Shikibu
- Khutulun
- Sayyida Al-Hurra
- Mochizuki Chiyome
- Doña Ana Lezama de Urinza & Doña Eustaquia de Sonza
- Lady Margaret Cavendish
- King Christina of Sweden
- Julie d'Aubigny
- Sybilla Masters
- Sybil Ludington
- Anne Lister
- Ching Shih
- Mary Anning
- Mary Seacole
- Frederike Mandelbaum
- Lakshmibai, the Rani of Jhansi
- Stagecoach Mary Fields
- Isabella Stewart Gardner
- Emily Warren Roebling
- Buffalo Calf Road Woman
- Mary Bowser & Bet Van Lew
- Marie Duval
- Fannie Farmer
- Juliette Gordon Low
- Annie Jump Cannon
- Clelia Duel Mosher
- Sarah Breedlove
- Edith Garrud
- Emmy Noether
- Alice Ball
- Dorothy Arzner
- Nwanyeruwa
- Rukmini Devi Arundale
- Mariya Oktyabrskaya
- Irene Sendler
- Ursula Nordstrom
- Elvira de la Furnte Chaudoir
- Jackie Mitchell
- Noor Inayat Khan
- Fanny Blankers-Koen
- Kumander Liwayway
- Azucena Villaflor
- Angela Morley
- Maria Tallchief
- The Mirabal sisters
- Lorraine Hansberry.