10/16/15 10/16/15

Every bad girl needs an exit strategy

Things would have turned out very differently for Marie Antoinette had she had one.

9/9/15 9/9/15

Dancer in the dark: Dai Ailian

The world saw Dai as Chinese first and a dancer second. But when she couldn't find a Chinese dance tradition to make her own, she set about creating one.

9/1/15 9/1/15

Men, don't shake your hips

Why is gracefulness a quality only associated with women?

8/25/15 8/25/15

What it feels like for a girl

What is the feminine mystique?

8/24/15 8/24/15

The baddest one of them all: Empress Dowager Cixi

How a whiffet of undistinguished antecedents plotted and schemed her way to the top is a lesson in bad galing for all the aspiring bad gals out there.

7/2/15 7/2/15

Manchu princess, Japanese spy: Yoshiko Kawashima

How different is a person allowed to be? Serious threats to established systems are either co-opted and neutralised or completely destroyed.

6/4/15 6/4/15

The daredevil aviatrixes of China

The phenomenal feats of the world's most glamorous aviatrixes.

4/30/15 4/30/15

A shooting star: Amrita Sher-Gil

On a cold winter’s day in Budapest, in 1913, the Indo-Hungarian artist Amrita Sher-Gil made the first of the many dramatic entrances of her life.

4/14/15 4/14/15

Fearless: Ken Tsai-Lee

If I had to use one word to describe Ken Tsai-Lee, "fearless" would be it.

4/2/15 4/2/15

A new woman: Na Hye-Seok

The brilliant but brief life of a Korean artist who dared to challenge the status quo.

3/25/15 3/25/15

Rossellini's Muse: Sonali Dasgupta

It was the scandal of the decade: Italian film great Roberto Rossellini left his wife, the beautiful Ingrid Bergman, for a married Indian woman, who bravely bore the full brunt of the patriarchy’s righteous anger to be with her lover.