Reprint: Originally published: Los Angeles, CA : Girl Press, c1998.

"This edition is only available for distribution through the school market"--P. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references (page 103).

Brief biographies of selected notable women, a few of them fictitious, from different countries and periods of history.

Amazons -- Josephine Baker -- Lucille Ball -- Baseball barnstormers -- Gertrude Bell -- Blues divas -- Nellie Bly -- Margaret Bourke-White -- Calamity Jane -- Maria Callas -- Cleopatra -- Comic book queens -- Madame Curie -- The Babe, Babe Didrikson -- Nancy Drew -- Amelia Earhart -- Evita (Peron) -- Janet Flanner -- Althea Gibson -- Cool goddesses -- Jane Goodall -- Martha Graham -- Harlem Renaissance women -- Hollywood power players -- Isabella of Castille -- Joan of Arc -- Lakshmi Bai, the Rani of Jhansi -- Lozen, Apache warrior -- Mother Jones -- Shirley Muldowney -- Queen Njinga -- Annie Oakley -- Scarlett O'Hara -- Georgia O'Keeffe -- Dorothy Parker -- Lady pirates -- Righteous queens -- Rosie the Riveter -- Lady samurais -- Margaret Sanger -- Soldaderas -- Soviet flying aces -- Lady spies -- Suffragists -- Harriet Tubman -- Women Vikings -- Madame C.J. Walker -- The fearless flying W.A.S.P.s -- Mae West -- Wu Zhao.