The author focuses on the lives of women who she considered as courageous: revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg, German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon, film icon and consummate performer Marilyn Monroe: .Shafilea Ahmed: Fadime Sahindal: Heshu Yones--Rose: and the contemporary artists Esther Shalev-Gerz, Yael Bartana, and Thérèse Oulton.