The Most Influential Women of Our Time

Chiara Pasqualetti Johnson has a degree in art history and lives and works in Milan. She is a journalist, and writes on lifestyle, travel, and art for the magazine Dove and the specialist magazines Arte and Antiquariato. She has edited books and series dedicated to the history of modern and contemporary art for Electa and Rizzoli.

• Introduction 6Emmeline Pankhurst 10Marie Curie 16Alexandra David-Néel 20Maria Montessori 24Gertrude Stein 28Mata Hari 32Virginia Woolf 36Coco Chanel 38Agatha Christie 42Martha Graham 46Amelia Earhart 50Golda Meir 56Peggy Guggenheim 58Tamara de Lempicka 62Leni Riefenstahl 64Diana Vreeland 68Margaret Bourke-White 72Estée Lauder 78Joséphine Baker 80Frida Kahlo 86Rachel Carson 90Simone de Beauvoir 94Rita Levi-Montalcini 98Mother Teresa 100Rosa Parks 104Indira Gandhi 108Evita Perón 112Rosalind Franklin 116Margaret Thatcher 118Elizabeth II 122Simone Veil 130Anne Frank 132Grace Kelly 138Audrey Hepburn 144Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis 150Dian Fossey 158Mary Quant 160Valentina Tereshkova 164Wangari Maathai 168Joan Baez 172Roberta Gibb 178Billie Jean King 182Zaha Hadid 186Benazir Bhutto 190Christiane Amanpour 196Diana Spencer 198Samantha Cristoforetti 204Misty Copeland 208Laura Dekker 212Malala Yousafzai 216Photograph Credits 222

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