Published in 2018
224 pages
Zing Tsjeng is the UK editor of VICE.com’s female-oriented channel Broadly. The channel focuses on women’s issues and interests and has been hailed as “the slickest feminist platform around”. Zing has also become a spokesperson for millennial women, debating at Telegraph Women events, twice appearing on Late Night Woman’s Hour and writing for Dazed, the Guardian and Broadly.
womenwhodraw.com is the first open directory of female professional illustrators from around the world. It has been featured in Vogue and on the Huffington Post.
The New Historia: Gina Luria Walker is Professor of Women’s Studies at The New School in New York City. She is Director of The New Historia, dedicated to the discovery, recovery and authoritative reclamation of women of the past through time and around the globe. The New Historia honours earlier women by telling their stories and sharing their strategies that inspire us to be sturdy and brave. In them we find our foremothers, transforming and remaking our ideas about history and ourselves.
What is this book about?
‘For most of history, anonymous was a woman.’ Virginia Woolf
Everyone knows a forgotten woman. The ones we hold close to our hearts, the rebels we raise in conversation over a drink, the pioneering early feminists who have been overlooked for too long. Forgotten Women redresses the balance.
Forgotten Women: The Leaders weaves together 48 (the number of Nobel-prize-winning women) unforgettable portraits of women who made huge yet unacknowledged contributions to history, the true pioneers and leaders who deserve to have had history books written about them, such as Grace O’Malley, the 16th century Irish pirate queen; Sylvia Rivera, who spearheaded the modern transgender movement; or Agent 355, the rebel spy who played a vital role in the American Revolution.
With evocative illustrations from the first open international directory of female professional illustrators, womenwhodraw.com, and in collaboration with the New Historia, an academic initiative designed to document and promote the achievements of women in history, Broadly editor-in-chief Zing Tsjeng brings together the stories of the most remarkable female leaders from across the ages.
