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Phylis Latour Doyle
From A Mighty Girl: Wartime spy finally accepts she is a French heroine - Telegraph At age 23, British secret…
Alia Muhammad Baker
When war and looting swept up Basra, she smuggled thirty thousand books from her library to save them from destruction.
Chien-Shiung Wu
She performed the experiment that overturned the law of conservation of parity and helped lead to the Standard Model of particle physics, while two men got the Nobel Prize for it.
Priss Fotheringham's Novelty Sex Act: "Chucking"
This 17th-century London prostitute collected money - literally - with a pretty novel sex act.
The Grindmother
When you're a 67-year old mother into singing grindcore, what else are you going to call yourself?
Civil War re-enactor making documentary about women who fought
J.R. Hardman is fighting to up the profile of actual women who fought undercover in the American Civil War - so that she is accepted as a legitimate re-enactor.
Lúcia da Silva Teixeira
Lúcia Teixeira is a visually impaired judoka from Brazil who won second place in the 2012 Summer Paralympics, and will be competing again in the 2016 events.
Aymara women mountain climbers
An AP photographer took pictures of a group of Aymara women climbing Huayna Potosi in traditional clothing. They work as porters and cooks but some aspire to become mountaineer guides themselves.
Explaining Cultural Appropriation
An erudite pair of 16-year-olds made a history report well worth watching.
Pausing to say thanks
6 months ago, I started this website as a fun little side project. Now it's taken over my life, I couldn't be happier, and it's thanks to all of you.
Random Princesses
Luisa Capetillo
In 1915, this rowdy Puerto Rican activist was arrested for wearing pants in public. It wouldn't be the last time she wore pants, or got arrested.
Malinche
Sold into sexual slavery to Hernan Cortes, this maligned woman became his interpreter, and it was with her words that…
Sojourner Truth
When her kid was stolen from her, this ex-slave successfully sued to get him back; she then went on to become a forceful speaker for abolition across the United States.
Isabella of France
After years of neglect and abuse from her husband, this queen raised an army and took over England for herself.
Sayyida al-Hurra
Indomitable pirate queen who ran Morocco and ruined Portuguese trade.
Petra Herrera
Mexican revolutionary who bombed bridges, led hundreds of women into battle, and was instrumental in turning the tide of the war for the revolutionaries.
Andamana
Indigenous lawmaker who united warring tribes under a unified code of laws that she made herself.
Lyudmila Pavlichenko
When her beloved college of history was bombed by the Germans, this woman began a dark path that would see her become history's deadliest female sniper -- and one of Eleanor Roosevelt's best friends.
Sigrid the Haughty
When some scrubs hit on her, she burnt them alive. When a king slapped her across the face, she obliterated his kingdom. Sigrid the Haughty was not to be messed with.
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
Through years of unrelenting protest, this Nigerian teacher felled a king, won women the right to vote, and taught all of Africa how to protest.