In Your Face Women

Originally, Nina Simone wanted to be a classical pianist. In order to prepare for that, she applied to Curtis Institute of Music in Phila...

Etta Shiber was a 62-year-old widow from Manhattan living with a woman friend of hers in Paris when she discovered -- as many women have -...

Evelyn Sharp was born into a respected English family in 1869. Despite receiving little formal education, she passed exams that demonstra...

In September of 1910, Hannah Shapiro went to her supervisor at Hart, Shaffner and Marx in Chicago to complain about a pay cut. It wasn...

After 500 years of hard core, unapologetic oppression by White people and a White Supremacist system, Black people in America were sti...

Three years after Huda Sha'arawi was born into an upper class family in Minya, Egypt, in 1879, Great Britain invaded and occupied he...

Blanche Stuart Scott's parents knew they had an in-your-face woman on their hands when the automobile was invented and she was drivin...

It was no surprise to a lot of people that Pat Schroeder ran for public office. She had graduated from Harvard Law School. She had worke...

Much has been written about how difficult it was for Germans under the Nazi regime during World War II to resist government authority. Muc...

In-your-face women like Odette Sansom come out of the woodwork when a war's on. Sansom was French, but living in England with her th...

Margaret Sanger was the sixth of eleven children born to her devout Catholic mother who got pregnant eighteen times in twenty-two years be...