First and Only Women

First and Only Women is a fascinating account of some of history's most inspiring women. In addition to the main stories, readers will find mini biographies of other incredible, trailblazing women across a number of fields from Pope Joan, the first and only female pope, to Bertha von Suttner, the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Adventurers and athletes, politicians and scientists, artists and educators, revolutionaries and criminals First and Only Women celebrates some extraordinary women who have singularly and collectively cleared a path for other females to follow. Among the female firsts are Pharoah Hatshepsut, a woman who ruled as king, not as queen; Christine de Pisan, Europe's first professional female writer; Bertha von Suttner, the first woman to win the Nobel peace prize, in 1905; and Valentina Tereshkova, Russian astronaut and in 1963 the first woman in space.