Badass Women: Awesome, Amazing, Inspiring, and Fearless Females

Women hold up half the sky and, most days, do even more of the heavy lifting including childbearing and child-rearing. Women have always been strong, although this strength is oftentimes unacknowledged. Now we women are coming into our own and have a chance to look at some of the most ass-kicking, powerful, and wise women in history. Badass Women is a celebration of these ladies and will inspire you to conquer the world and unleash your full awesomeness.

Becca Anderson, bestselling author of The Book of Awesome Women and The Book of Awesome Women Writers (with more than 100,000 copies of her books sold), has teamed up with Marlene Wagman-Geller, bestselling author of Fabulous Female Firsts and Women of Means (with more than 100,000 copies of her books sold, sensing a pattern here?) to bring us this compendium of fabulous and powerful ladies.

Featured women include familiar names (including Harriet Tubman, Malala Yousafzai, Susan B. Anthony, Marie Curie, Ada Lovelace, and Cleopatra) and those less recognized by history, like Annie Easley, an African American woman who worked for NASA and wrote the code to send men to the moon, Eline Collins, the first female US space shuttle commander, Halet Çambel, the first Muslim woman to compete in the Olympics, Margaret Brent, the first female attorney in the colonies who practiced in 1642, and many many more!

From rebel girls who refused to let their wings be clipped to the suffragettes who claimed new space for women, each trailblazer in this collection of biographies pushed the boundaries for what was possible for women in their time. Within these pages are the stories of some of the most fabulous women in history. The daring women who broke the rules, reached for the impossible, and persevered so that we could continue their legacy.