Comedian, award-winning actress and TV Writer Tracy Dawson illuminates with a wry warmth the incredible stories of a diverse group of women from different ethnicities and cultural backgrounds who have defied the patriarchy, refusing to allow men or the status quo to define their lives or break their spirit. An often sardonic and thoroughly impassioned homage to female ingenuity and tenacity, the women profiled in this inspiring anthology broke the rules to reach their goals and refused to take “no” for an answer. These women took matters into their own hands, dressing—sometimes literally, sometimes figuratively—as men to do what they wanted to do. Not only did these women persist, many unknowingly made history and ultimately inspired later generations in doing so. Michele Good reads.
Today, a nun who became a soldier and lived to tell the tale and the creator of the first female superhero, Miss Fury.