They Dared!: 100 Exceptional Women Throughout History

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100 exceptional women who stood out and changed the face of the world forever!

Lucy, a 3.2 million year old "hominid", is also called Dinknesh which, in the Ethiopian language, means: "you are wonderful". There have been and will be wonderful women who succeed in asserting themselves and in advancing mentalities, as long as injustices and discrimination against women exist. There are many, from all social backgrounds, all eras and all countries who have changed the course of history, whether it is Zenobia, who from Palmyra, defied the Roman Empire, or the Finnish Vigdis Finnbogadottir, the first elected female president: each, in her own way, has dared! From Tomoé Gozen, the first female samurai in the 12th ^century , to Olympe de Gouge, who wrote "The Rights of Women and the Female Citizen" during the French Revolution, to the Swedish Selma Lagerlöf, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1909, Marie Curie who helped revolutionize science in the 20th ^century , and Malala Yousafzai, who put her life in danger so that young girls could go to school, this book traces the lives of these exceptional women who, whatever their fields of activity, have been able to assert themselves in a world dominated by men. In doing so, they have forever changed the face of the world. Although they represent a little more than half of Humanity, there are still countries where women do not count. Fortunately, some will still dare and change the laws. Like their sisters of previous centuries, through their intelligence, courage and convictions, they will shake up the archaic moral order. Through these portraits, Nathalie Kauffmann shows us how women participated, for the first time, in areas of society previously reserved for men and how they now play an active role. It is the story of these battles, as different as the women who fought them, that are highlighted in this fascinating work.