Chuck Gonzales - We Can Do Anything - From sports to innovation, art to politics, meet over 200 women who got there first

COPYRIGHT COPYRIGHT DEDICATION INTRODUCTION ARTS & LITERATURE POLITICS & WORLD-BUILDING SCIENCE & INNOVATION SPORTS & ENDURANCE EPILOGUE SEA CHANGE: WAVES OF FEMINISM CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY GLOSSARY INDEX IMAGE CREDITS ABOUT THE AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

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First published in hardback by HarperCollins Publishers in 2016 as Girls Can Do Anything

This revised paperback edition first printed in 2018

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Cover and interior illustrations by Chuck Gonzales

Cover and interior design by Pete Clayman

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Ebook Edition © February 2018 ISBN: 9780008213459

Version: 2018-02-22

DEDICATION DEDICATION INTRODUCTION ARTS & LITERATURE POLITICS & WORLD-BUILDING SCIENCE & INNOVATION SPORTS & ENDURANCE EPILOGUE SEA CHANGE: WAVES OF FEMINISM CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY GLOSSARY INDEX IMAGE CREDITS ABOUT THE AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

Dedicated to Bump (AKA Saoirse)

This title comes from a sign my encouraging

parents hung in my room when I was small.

This book is dedicated to the women and

men in my life who taught me from a young

age that, truly, girls can do anything.—C.D.

CONTENTS

COVER

TITLE PAGE

COPYRIGHT COPYRIGHT COPYRIGHT DEDICATION INTRODUCTION ARTS & LITERATURE POLITICS & WORLD-BUILDING SCIENCE & INNOVATION SPORTS & ENDURANCE EPILOGUE SEA CHANGE: WAVES OF FEMINISM CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY GLOSSARY INDEX IMAGE CREDITS ABOUT THE AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABOUT THE PUBLISHER HarperCollins Publishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF www.harpercollins.co.uk First published in hardback by HarperCollins Publishers in 2016 as Girls Can Do Anything This revised paperback edition first printed in 2018 Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Cover design © HarperCollins Publishers Caitlin Doyle asserts her moral rights as author of the text. Cover and interior illustrations by Chuck Gonzales Cover and interior design by Pete Clayman A catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library While every effort has been made to trace the owners of copyright material reproduced herein and secure permissions, the publishers would like to apologise for any omissions and will be pleased to incorporate missing acknowledgements in any future edition of this book. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books. Find out about HarperCollins and the environment at www.harpercollins.co.uk/green Source ISBN 9780008285616 Ebook Edition © February 2018 ISBN: 9780008213459 Version: 2018-02-22

DEDICATION DEDICATION DEDICATION INTRODUCTION ARTS & LITERATURE POLITICS & WORLD-BUILDING SCIENCE & INNOVATION SPORTS & ENDURANCE EPILOGUE SEA CHANGE: WAVES OF FEMINISM CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY GLOSSARY INDEX IMAGE CREDITS ABOUT THE AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABOUT THE PUBLISHER Dedicated to Bump (AKA Saoirse) This title comes from a sign my encouraging parents hung in my room when I was small. This book is dedicated to the women and men in my life who taught me from a young age that, truly, girls can do anything.—C.D.

INTRODUCTION

ARTS & LITERATURE

POLITICS & WORLD-BUILDING

SCIENCE & INNOVATION

SPORTS & ENDURANCE

EPILOGUE

SEA CHANGE: WAVES OF FEMINISM

CONCLUSION

BIBLIOGRAPHY

GLOSSARY

INDEX

IMAGE CREDITS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

Introduction

Hello ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, and welcome to the adventure that is We Can Do Anything!

Within these colorful and informative pages, there is something for everyone—a little bit of round-the-world record-breaking here, some major history changers there … But mostly, this book is a wonderful opportunity for each of us to hear about the making of the world around us, and to listen to the female voices—so often silenced by history books and social norms—that spoke so much of the world’s wisdom.

I sometimes think about a fridge magnet I once saw, which said, “For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.” I wanted to give this inanimate magnet the power of speech, because its message was the same as the one that I hoped to deliver through this book: for much of history, a majority of the silent voices were those of girls and women. I know that some of you are thinking, “but it’s the 21st century, and everyone from Beyoncé to Taylor Swift, Joseph Gordon Levitt to Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie, is leaning in, standing up, and shouting loud in support of women.” That’s true, so you might also say that feminism’s no longer a dirty word and women have made it—and that this book is simply an attractive, educational, historical, and “politically correct” artefact about a time and place where women found themselves to be the supporting acts on an otherwise masculine stage … Right? Wrong .

If history has taught us anything, it is that those great thinkers and doers of the past must stand as inspiring examples for us to learn from—and do better. For every woman who has chipped away at the glass ceiling of business, or outperformed every other runner on the track, there are still millions of others who never even make it to the starting line. My wish is for you, dear readers, the creators of the future, to ensure that we all learn from the greatness that came before, in order to make the future even greater—for all.