The first comprehensive guide to women activists from every part of the world, illuminating the broad range of women's struggles to reform society from the 18th century to the present. * Over 400 A-Z biographical entries, including the childhood, education, achievements, and challenges of each woman * A timeline that spans the history of women reformers from the French Revolution, to the second wave of feminism in the late 1970s, to the disenfranchised status of women in many countries in the contemporary Middle East * Numerous drawings and photographs of women reformers * Two special indexes listing reformers by country and by cause