pirates and thelike : reality check     female pirates in the chinese ocean. this is women business, and the ladies are feared for their cruelty. Its happening nowadays ....     next time I become rich I'll buy myself "Bold in Her Breeches" and "The Pirate Queen" and "Pirates and Privateers of the Americas" -- tons of books about my favourite topic . . .. .   !i!i!
Dr. Mary Edwards Walker - Surgeon, Spy, Suffragette "that shocking female surgeon in trousers!"

 

Amazons and Military Maids "Women Who Dressed as Men in Pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness"   "They proved that women where equally capable of excelling in the masculine spere but since the female soldiers and silorts remained such staunch individualists, they presented little threat to the established order."   Julie Eheelwright, 1989, Pandora

 
 
 

Mafiawomen   "It looked as Though women, previously excluded from mafia business, had suddendly started working for the various criminal organisations. Or was it that investigators, having always accepted the idea that women never get involved, had finally begun to study their movements a little more closely?" (Introduction by Clare Longrigg)   Clare Longrigg, 1998, Vintage

 
 
 

No Angels Women who commit violence   cover cooler than content - if there wasn't Emily Hamer's excellent essay "Fighting for Freedom Suffragette Violence Against their State"     Alice Myers & Sarah Wight Editors, 1996, Pandora