A collection of essays about freethinking women who rejected traditional religion and embraced non-belief. All of these women are important, though most of them are not widely known, and they had a big impact on women's issues. Included as an appendix is a list of other freethinking women who did not make the main text, but are important enough to be included in an anthology of this sort. Conspicuous by her absense is the abrasive atheist leader, Madalyn Murray O'Hair. ( )