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016 in the United States, Americans were safe with the idea that
their women were never put in danger. Balderdash... We just
didn't give our women guns to defend themselves." And the Women
Stood on the Sidewalks and Waved... By Irene Stuber (This
article originally was published in the Rebel magazine, 1995.)
Rebels are not always thin, brown men with bandannas wrapped
around their sweaty brows... Sometimes the rebels are women -
although history has pictured all women wearing silk gowns,
languorously sipping afternoon tea waiting for the brave menfolk
to come home from the wars. Our HIStory books honor and record
one kind of rebel (the kind men writers can imagine in their
mirrors) while the rebels in skirts are ignored. And the most
totally ignored are the women who rebelled against their
positions of non-involvement and took up arms against their
oppressors - the same as men did. For example, there was
Boadicea (Boudicca) (fl 40-65), who led an a