Who is a female historical figure who rebelled against authority?

Question

Anyone who was forced to conform to certain societal models but rebelled.

Answer 1

Catherine of Siena!

Answer 2

Victoria Woodhull, Carrie Nation, Harriet Tubman, Betty Friedan

Answer 3

Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Susan B Anthony

Answer 4

Rosa Luxemburg championed the idea of the general strike, and was a tireless opponent of the First World War and renounced the German Social Democratic Party. She created the Spartacus League and later went on to help in the formation of the German Communist Party. She was assassinated by the post-war Social Democratic Government for her role in the failed workers' uprising. There are a number of her works available, among them are 'Reform or Revolution', 'The Mass Strike', 'Leninism or Marxism', 'The Russian Revolution', 'The Junius Pamphlet'.

Answer 5

Emily Davison who threw herself under the king’s horse in the Derby.

Davison was a suffragette, a member of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) whose life’s work was the cause of women’s suffrage.

Davison was born in Blackheath, London, educated at Royal Holloway College, London and later at St Hugh’s College Oxford where she took first-class honours in English Literature. Oxford awarded her, not a degree, but the title of ‘Lady Licentiate in Arts’ as, at that time, Oxford and Cambridge did not award degrees to women.

Davison joined Emeline Pankhurst’s WSPU in 1906, and at once became involved in aggressive action. She was arrested on several occasions, once for attacking a man she thought was Lloyd George. She went on hunger strike in prison and was force fed. On the night of the 1911 census, she crept into the Hose of Commons and spent the night in a cupboard, so that she could legally write down ‘Palace of Westminster’ as her address. Mr Tony Benn relates that he has placed a commemorative plaque in this cupboard.

What took place on the afternoon of 4th June 1913 is unclear. Some say that Davison heroically committed suicide for the cause. Others say that she intended to stop the king’s racehorse ‘Amner’ and place the ribbon of the WSPU on the beast. Cine film of the incident shows Davison stepping onto the course as the field were rounding Tattenham Park Corner. Some eyewitnesses stated that Davison attempted to pull down the king’s horse. The fact that she had purchased a return railway ticket, however, points away from the suicide theory. What is certain is that Davison fell under the hooves of the racehorse, had her skull fractured and died four days later.

Davison is buried in the churchyard of St Mary the Virgin, Morpeth, Northumberland NE61 2QT. Her tombstone bears the apposite WSPU slogan ‘Deeds Not Words’.

Answer 6

Susan B. Anthony, George Sands, Harriett Tubman, Margaret Sanger, need anymore?

Answer 7

Joan of Arc, Susan B. Anthony, Amelia Earhardt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth I (not II, she's the current one)

Answer 8

Boudica (Boudicca)
"...a terrible disaster occurred in Britain. Two cities were sacked, eighty thousand of the Romans and of their allies perished, and the island was lost to Rome. Moreover, all this ruin was brought upon the Romans by a woman, a fact which in itself caused them the greatest shame....But the person who was chiefly instrumental in rousing the natives and persuading them to fight the Romans, the person who was thought worthy to be their leader and who directed the conduct of the entire war, was Buduica, a Briton woman of the royal family and possessed of greater intelligence than often belongs to women....In stature she was very tall, in appearance most terrifying, in the glance of her eye most fierce, and her voice was harsh; a great mass of the tawniest hair fell to her hips; around her neck was a large golden necklace; and she wore a tunic of divers colours over which a thick mantle was fastened with a brooch. This was her invariable attire."

Answer 9

Harriet Tubman was a slave woman who led many slaves out of the South and into freedom. After the Civil War ended, she went on fighting for freedom but now for the rights of women.

Answer 10

Amelia Earhart - Belle Starr - Calamity Jane - Janet Guthrie - Shirley Muldowney -

Answer 11

Rosa Parks