A COLLECTION OF HEROINES WHO CHALLENGED THE RULES TO SUCCEED IN IMPOSING THEMSELVES  IN A MALE DOMINATED WORLD.

There are many books dedicated to women, to the stories of the few (and therefore precious) who managed to overcome the innumerable obstacles that stood between themselves and the objectives that they legitimately intended to pursue, but for whom their gender was judged wrong. But there are also women who in order to live fully had to do more than assert their will: they had to be born again and pretend to be men.  In this book are collected stories of women who pretended to be men to fight the battles in which they believed, to be able to access studies or practice their favorite sport, to go around the world or participate in a naturalistic expedition or simply to earn a living.Women who dressed up only for a short stretch of life and women whose male clothes became a second skin - soldiers, athletes, doctors, writers and deejays - so much so that the true identity was discovered, with surprise, amazement or horror, only after death.Distant in time or incredibly recent, from distant countries or our land, these women with mustaches (fake) are the protagonists of bizarre or dramatic stories, true documented stories or poised between myth and legend. Each biography is anticipated by an "identity card" that also reveals the hidden reasons behind the disguise.

Annalisa Strada has published over 80 books, many of which have been translated abroad, and has won some of the most prestigious awards dedicated to children’s reading like il Gigante delle Langhe (2010), il Premio Arpino (2011, 2012), il Premio Selezione Bancarellino (2017) e il Premio Cento (2017). For Deagostini she wrote the successfull series Cose da fare….

Gianna Re worked for a long time in the publishing world, then one day she decided to leave everything to be a teacher (that is, the most beautiful job in the world) and live full-time in the hills of Casale Monferrato, where she was born and raised. She always loves to play with words, translate, and tell stories, but only recently she also started to write her own stories.