Every day, all around the world, women are reinventing what it means to be female in cultures where power, privilege or basic freedoms are all too often equated with being male.
Here, Caroline Criado-Perez, one of the most vocal and tenacious campaigners of her generation, introduces us to some of these pioneering women. We meet the first woman to cross the Antarctic alone; we meet a female fighter pilot in Afghanistan; we meet a climate change activist who scaled new heights; we meet a Chilean revolutionary turned politician; we meet the Russian punks who rocked out against Putin; and we meet the Iranian journalist who dared to uncover her hair.
Amazing. You can see the beginning of Invisible Women at several points. Every single woman interviewed and focused on is... Inspiring is the least of it, they are just amazing, strong, fierce, determined, smart, so brave.
I cried through most of this book, it's not for the faint hearted. It is full of horror stories and they are all true, worse they are repeated still. They are stories that could become our own lived realities. But the women overcome and fight for other women to have better lives. We should all indeed do it like a woman, like these women.
A must read, just like Invisible Women is a must read.
Caroline Criado Perez, thank you, I can't wait to see what you do next.
