VICE View author page Features for VICE’s popular Identity channel (formerly known as Broadly) on badass historical women – from a ’60s housewife’s controversial sexual memoir to the world’s first known author and Mesopotamian priestess. Agnès SorelThe legendarily topless mistress who saved France HatshepsutThe cross-dressing queen turned powerful pharaoh EnheduannaThe Sumerian high priestess and first known author Anna KingsfordThe Victorian occultist accused of killing men with her mind Franceska MannThe Polish ballerina who shot Nazis on her way to the gas chamber The Housewife's HandbookThis scandalous sex memoir was banned by the US Supreme Court Agnès SorelThe legendarily topless mistress who saved France HatshepsutThe cross-dressing queen turned powerful pharaoh EnheduannaThe Sumerian high priestess and first known author Franceska MannThe Polish ballerina who shot Nazis on her way to the gas chamber Anna KingsfordThe Victorian occultist accused of killing men with her mind The Housewife's HandbookThis scandalous sex memoir was banned by the US Supreme Court