Sheroes : Bold, Brash (and Absolutely Unabashed) Women Superheroes from Susan B.Anthony to Xena

Women have always been heroes but it is no longer enough to just say so.

As we shake off the last traces of a major patriarchal hangover, women need new language to express an untrammelled femininity that has nothing to do with bondage -- unless, of course, that's your bag. And women of courage must have a name of their own: "Sheroes." As "Sheroes," women can fully embrace all their fiery fempower and celebrate the unique potency of a gender-tribe.

Packing estrogen -- and not infrequently, a pen and a sword -- "Sheroes" come in every imaginable shape, size, color and manifest their sheroism in unimaginably infinite ways.

At a time when women were relegated to the status of second-class citizens, sheroic foremothers battled exclusion and seclusion to pave the way for the fictional and real life cybersheroes, women warriors, and screen goddesses of today. "Sheroes" features 200 profiles including: Agent Scully, Rosa Parks, Foxy Brown, Wonder Woman, Jewel, Penthesilia, Lara Croft, Emma Peel, Clarice Starling, Melissa Etheridge, Starhawk, Thelma & Louise, Pippi Longstocking, Anita Hill, Harriet the Spy, Mary Richards, Nancy Drew, Judy Bari, Miss Marple, Sally Ride, Harriet Tubman, Ellen De Generes, Tina Turner, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Sacajawea.

From Ripley, played by Sigourney Weaver in the Alien series to Phoolan Devi, India's Bandit Queen, these women rule!