Witches & Rebels
This accused “witch” was executed during the Salem Witch Trials and is often remembered as a victim of mass hysteria.
Who is Bridget Bishop?
She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize — and the first person to win it twice.
Who is Marie Curie?
This 18th-century author’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman challenged the “monstrous” treatment of women.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
She was the first woman to win an Oscar for Best Director — for The Hurt Locker.
Who is Kathryn Bigelow?
This Egyptian queen is often portrayed as a temptress but was actually a skilled linguist and diplomat.
Who is Cleopatra?
This 15th-century French heroine was executed for heresy and later canonized as a saint.
Who is Joan of Arc?
Known as the “Mother of Modern Nursing,” this woman worked through the night — like a ghostly figure — during the Crimean War.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
She created one of literature’s most famous monsters — Frankenstein’s creature.
Who is Mary Shelley?
Known for her eerie, feminist art featuring flowers and bones, this painter was a trailblazer in modern art.
Who is Georgia O’Keeffe?
The “Bloody Mary” of English lore was actually this queen known for her brutal religious persecution.
Who is Queen Mary I of England?
In feminist theory, witches are often seen as symbols of this kind of power that challenges patriarchy.
What is female empowerment?
This aviator vanished mysteriously in 1937 while attempting to fly around the world.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
This suffragist was arrested for casting a ballot in the 1872 presidential election.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
This poet wrote haunting verses like “Because I could not stop for Death.”
Who is Emily Dickinson?
This 19th-century nurse pioneered mental health reform and humane treatment in asylums.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
The “Witch Craze” in Europe coincided with the rise of this new economic system that displaced many women from land-based work.
What is capitalism?
She founded the American Red Cross and was nicknamed the “Angel of the Battlefield.”
Who is Clara Barton?
She coined the phrase “Ain’t I a Woman?” in her fight for both racial and gender equality.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
This enslaved woman’s 1773 poetry collection made her one of the first published African American poets.
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
The mysterious poet who lived much of her life in isolation in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
This feminist scholar wrote Caliban and the Witch, linking witch hunts to the control of women’s bodies.
Who is Silvia Federici?
A scientist often overshadowed by her partner, this mathematician worked on the world’s first computer.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
This U.S. Supreme Court Justice was known for her dissents that “haunt” the legal world today.
Who is Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
This author’s ghostly novel Beloved explores trauma, motherhood, and freedom after slavery.
Who is Toni Morrison?
This 20th-century Mexican painter used surreal, haunting imagery to explore identity and pain.
Who is Frida Kahlo?