Herstory: 50 Women and Girls Who Shook Up the World

This illustrated collection introduces fifty women who made an important mark on the world. Among the people included are Indira Gandhi, Billie Holiday, and Elizabeth Blackwell, alongside forty-seven others. Its subject is women and girls in history, particularly the ways girls have often been described through limits on what they could or should do. Gouache and colored-pencil illustrations accompany the profiles. The book gathers these figures into a history centered on women whose lives and work left a lasting public mark.