Publisher's Synopsis
The story of women's part in the struggle's success has only now received comprehensive consideration in the history of women and gender politics in revolutionary.
You'll encounter Kit Cavanagh, the swaggering Irish dragoon who was the first woman to be buried in London with full military honors; marauding eighteenth-century pirates Mary Read and Anne Bonny, who collided on the high seas after swapping their petticoats for pantaloons; Ellen Craft, an escaped slave who masqueraded as a white master to spirit her husband-to-be to freedom; and Billy Tipton, the swinging jazz musician, who led a double life as an adult, taking five wives along the way. Then there are the women who still have to dress like men to live their best lives, like the inspirational football-lovers in Iran, who risk everything to take their place in the stands.
