I examine how Burmese prodemocracy dissident, Aung San Suu Kyi, challenges the epistemological unconscious that guides Western notions of courage and maps its viability for nonviolent political resistance.

Few figures vivify the struggle over public memory and survival as compellingly as second wave U.S. feminist Andrea Dworkin, who was a visionary and gadfly within the movement.

This chapter explores the second wife of President Woodrow Wilson. Called by some our "first woman president," Edith exhibited a penchant for enlarged opportunities even as she confirmed Southern traditions.