From Neolithic times to the present, women who have shaped their age and revolutionized society have generally been marginalized. For this encouraging collection, Zing Tsjeng has compiled 190 compact biographical sketches, including abolitionist Sojourner Truth, painter Hilma af Klint, nun and poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, reformer Mary Ann McCracken, pioneering Japanese woman writer Ichiyo Higuchi, Native American chronicler Zitkala-Sa, contraception visionary Margaret Sanger, Irish pirate Grace O'Malley, and gay rights activist Ruth Simpson.